MOSCOW. March 6 (Interfax-AVN) - The heads of relevant departments of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) foreign ministries and other agencies concerned held consultations on disarmament and arms control at the organization's secretariat on Wednesday, CSTO press secretary Vladimir Zainetdinov told Interfax-AVN.
"The consultations saw a constructive exchange of opinions on interaction between the CSTO member-states in implementing the 2010 Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference and coordinating their participation in another review of the treaty and a discussion of problems of the Central Asian Nuclear Weapon Free Zone Treaty that was signed in Semipalatinsk on September 8, 2006," he said.
The negotiators "discussed coordination of the CSTO members' positions at multilateral disarmament forums related to the Inhumane Weapons Convention and the Convention on the Prohibition of Biological and Toxin Weapons," Zainetdinov said.
"Taking part in the consultations were representatives of the Republic of Armenia, the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Russian Federation, and the Republic of Tajikistan," he said.