MOSCOW. April 22 (Interfax-AVN) - The Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) will work out a roadmap for improving cooperation with the UN, CSTO Secretary General Nikolai Bordyuzha told journalists on Friday.
"The UN secretary general and we have agreed that a delegation of the CSTO secretariat led by a deputy secretary general will fly to New York in the near future to work out an interaction roadmap," Bordyuzha said.
The CSTO expects to engage resources of UN institutions to combat international terrorism, he said.
The CSTO has great potential in combating drug trafficking, Bordyuzha said. In particular, the organization does not intend to confine itself to the anti-drug operation Channel and is considering the possible establishment of drug rehabilitation centers, he said.
The CSTO secretary general met with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Friday. Ban took part in a meeting of the CSTO Permanent Council, which was also attended by representatives of the CSTO member-states, the CIS Executive Committee, and the Eurasian Economic Community (EurAsEC), ambassadors of Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan, top officials from the CSTO Joint Staff, the heads of the State Duma committees, and officials from the Russian Foreign Ministry.