CSTO states will ratify all agreements by December

ASTANA. Aug 15 (Interfax) - CSTO countries will ratify all international documents in the framework of the organization by December of this year, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has said.

"We analyzed the regulatory documents that we recently signed and declared that we will officially ratify all of these documents by December of this year and they will become law, as the Republic of Belarus has done," Lukashenko said at a Friday briefing in Astana following the CSTO unofficial summit.

"We [in Belarus] don't have a single [CSTO] document that we would not have ratified. Other countries have these documents at the stage of ratification. We will make all of the decisions by December," he said.