MINSK. May 31 (Interfax-AVN) - The foreign ministers of Collective Security Treaty Organization member states discussed ways to improve coordination of peacekeeping mechanisms and to promote a partnership institution within the CSTO at a session in Minsk on Tuesday.
"We discussed the functioning of our coordination mechanisms today. We have created lots of them. Very good results have already been achieved, including in the fight against drug trafficking and illegal immigration, as well as in the sphere of information security," CSTO Secretary General Nikolai Bordyuzha said at a meeting with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko.
The foreign ministers of CSTO member countries attended the meeting as well.
Great progress has been made within the CSTO in responding to emergencies and conducting cleanup operations, Bordyuzha said.
At a narrow-format session, special attention "was paid to issues surrounding the realization of priorities declared by Belarus, which currently holds the CSTO chairmanship," he said.
They include peacekeeping and the institution of partnership, Bordyuzha said.
"We have already done a great deal as far as peacekeeping is concerned. Acting on orders from the chairman of the CSTO Foreign Ministers Council, a delegation of the organization's Secretariat visited the UN, where productive consultations were held. We now understand the UN's requirements for peacekeeping missions. We understand what regulatory documents and standards we should have," he said.
Commenting on the institution of partnership, Bordyuzha said that "we have partners both among international organizations and states, which cooperate either as part of certain programs, for example the fight against drug trafficking, or on more general issues," the CSTO secretary general said.