MOSCOW. Aug 2 (Interfax-AVN) - The Russian working group set up to discuss draft regulatory documents and charters of the Collective Security Treaty Organization started a session in Moscow on Friday, a source in the administration of the Collective Security Council told Interfax-Military News Agency.
The session is chaired by Deputy Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Trubnikov, the source said. It also involves Chief-of-Staff of the Russian Armed Forces Anatoly Kvashnin and his first deputy Colonel General Yuri Baluyevsky, who were appointed by the government to the Russian part of the working group set up by the nations signatories to the treaty to draft regulatory documents of the organization and its key bodies.
"The meeting is focused on discussing and updating charters and regulatory documents of the Collective Security Treaty Organization. There are more than 15 of them. In particular, members of the working group will discuss and update the draft charter of the new regional military political organization and its military component that is expected to be based on a new staff body of the Collective Security Treaty Organization untended for coordinating and controlling regional security systems and the Collective Rapid-Deployment Forces in Central Asia," the source stressed.
The session also involves Secretary General of the Collective Security Council Valery Nikolayenko and officials of several Russian ministries and departments, including the Ministries of Finance, Justice, Labor and Social Protection.
The Collective Security Treaty Organization was set up at an anniversary session of the Collective Security Council on May 14 this year by the presidents of the six countries signatories to the treaty. The treaty signed on May 15, 1992, currently unites Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Tajikistan.