CSTO officials agree to work out measures over establishing stability in Kyrgyzstan
Secretaries of National Security Councils of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) member states agreed to work out measures over establishing stability in Kyrgyzstan, where over 100 people died as a result of coup d'etat, RIA Novosti reported.
Upon the order of Russian President Medvedev, CSTO officials gathered in Moscow on Monday to discuss ways to resolve the crisis in Kyrgyzstan, including possible deployment of a peacekeeping contingent. Kyrgyzstan has been discussed at the request of country's new, interim opposition government Roza Otunbayeva. Remind that Armenian Secretary of National Security Council Artur Bagdasaryan has left for Moscow today to attend the meeting.
"We agreed the positions of security council secretaries, worked out measures that will be reported to CSTO presidents. We hope the measures are coordinated soon," Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev said at the extraordinary meeting.
He said the meeting participants "did not rule out the use of any means on the CSTO agenda." CSTO, a post-Soviet security bloc, comprises Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan.