MOSCOW. June 16 (Interfax-AVN) - Member states of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) will help law enforcement and defense bodies in Kyrgyzstan restore order following the outbreak of ethnic clashes, CSTO General Secretary Nikolai Bordyuzha has said.
"Such assistance will be rendered," he said at a Wednesday meeting in Moscow with Kyrgyz Security Council secretary Alik Uruzov and acting Foreign Minister Ruslan Kazakpayev.
At the meeting, special attention was paid to collective response measures that were planned at emergency consultations of CSTO security council secretaries on June 14 and submitted for decision-making to presidents, a statement of the CSTO Secretariat received by Interfax-AVN on Wednesday said.