MOSCOW, April 25 (AVN) - International terrorism and other manifestations of militant extremism pose the most serious threat for the global society, especially in Central Asia, Russian Security Council Secretary Vladimir Rushailo said on Wednesday before leaving for Yerevan.
Rushailo went to Armenia to participate in a meeting of security council secretaries committee of the Collective Security Treaty member nations which is to start on Thursday. The committee was established in Minsk in May 2000.
According to Rushailo, the most threatening situation is currently on the Tajikistan-Afghanistan border. There is a serious need to give a new push to establishment of regional security systems and their control bodies, primarily in Central Asia. The system will be an "important element of the general collective security system in the context of military and political integration of the Colelctive Security Treaty members," Rushailo added.
This issue will be the hottest topic for discussion during the two-day session of the committee. About 10 other issues related to national security of the treaty member states will be discussed as well. Particularly, the session will study a package of documents regulating establishment of quick response coalition forces in Central Asia and their status. Oganisation of regional groups of the treaty members' armies in the Caucasus and on the Western European theatre of operations will also be considered.
The forthcoming session will be an important stage of preparation of the Collective Security Treaty summit which is planned to be held in Yerevan in late May, Rushailo stressed.
Session participants are expected to meet Armenian President Robert Kocharyan, a spokesman for the Russian Security Council administration told the Military News Agency.