Dushanbe, 14.04.2016. /NIAT “Khovar”/. Secretary General of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) Nikolai Bordyuzha will pay a visit to Dushanbe on 17-20 April.

According to the Tajik MFA Information Department, the CSTO Secretary General is scheduled to meet with the senior officials of our country.

The Collective Security Treaty Organization is a regional mutual defense alliance that consists of former Soviet republics of Russia, Belarus, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan

Currently, the existence of the SCTO is an important factor of stability and security of the external borders of the Organization. A constant work in the framework of the CSTO can improve interstate military-political and political ties of the member-states to a qualitatively new level of a real formation of an effective system of collective security, as the political foundation of the CSTO is the similarity and coincidence of the opinions of the member-states regarding the situation in the world, the common concern for the challenges of a global and regional security.

The Republic of Tajikistan gives a great importance to the participation in the CSTO activities. Cooperation within the framework of the Organization is in the national interests of Tajikistan and allows active countering to international terrorism, religious extremism, drug trafficking and arms trafficking, illegal migration and in general providing security and stability in the wide region of Eurasia, as well as the territorial integrity and independence of the member-states of the Organization. Tajikistan stands for CSTO becoming the significant factor in ensuring security.

The Republic of Tajikistan believes that immediate and important tasks of the CSTO are the intensification of the military-political integration of the CSTO member-states, the coordination of the CSTO member-states capacities and the improvement of the member-states in the area ofdefense policy, military construction and military-technical cooperation.