MOSCOW. June 16 (Interfax) - The Collective Security Treaty Organization has decided to suspend attempts to establish a dialogue with NATO and has taken the course towards developing cooperation with the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE).
"In view of the situation the CSTO foreign ministers have decided to suspend attempts to establish a dialogue with NATO. To preserve the negotiating field on the European platform a course has been recommended towards further development of cooperation with the OSCE," the CSTO Secretary General Nikolai Bordyuzha said at a meeting with the heads of parliamentary delegations from the CSTO member states, chaired by State Duma Speaker Sergei Naryshkin, at the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly on Monday.
Another priority is a course towards stronger cooperation with the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) and a number of other organizations, as well as China, Latin America and Caribbean countries.
Bordyuzha informed the attendees about the decisions made recently at meetings of the Council of Foreign, Defense Ministers and the Committee of Security Council Secretaries, which focused on the proposals to develop the CSTO and made some adjustments to the organization's objectives.
"The outcomes of the meetings held by the charter-based bodies point to the Organization's members sharing the understanding of the firm determination to collectively resolve the problems dictated by the current extremely difficult international situation," the CSTO secretary general said.
Among the Organization's priorities is the course "towards stronger cooperation with the SCO and the Conference on confidence-building measures, and with the People's Republic of China," he said.
Furthermore, it is necessary to broaden political support for international organizations of Latin America and the Caribbean Basin, the CSTO secretary general said.
Relations with Iran deserve a special effort, given this country's "unquestionable influence in the regions, especially when taking the Afghanistan factor into account," Bordyuzha said.
In describing the current international situation Bordyuzha said that a number of Western countries have been exerting strong political, economic and information pressure on Russia and other CSTO members. They hardly masque their strategic goals which, Bordyuzha said, involved "further destabilization, of the post-Soviet space and disintegration of the international collective institutions set up here."
These countries' actions are characterized by "the notorious double standards and the shameless twisting of facts" which have become a tool of forming a public opinion about global processes, said the CSTO secretary general.
"In our view, the world is effectively on the brink of an overt standoff," Bordyuzha said.
He added that a number of countries barely camouflage their actions: they rudely meddle in the affairs of other states, try to manipulate their public opinions, influence their authorities economically and financially, in order to change their political course and bring pro-western puppet regimes into power.
"The well-tested 'colored revolution' technologies are being widely used. A classic example of such a revolution was the unconstitutional coup in Ukraine which today has effectively turned into a civil war," the CSTO secretary general said.