MOSCOW. May 6 (Interfax-AVN) - Secretary General of the Collective Security Council Nikolai Bordyuzha has come into office, chief of the Council secretariat Alexander Kuznetsov said on Tuesday.
"Nikolai Bordyuzha, who was appointed secretary general of the Collective Security Council at the Dushanbe summit (of the Council member nations on April 28 - Interfax-AVN), has come into office. A conference took place at the Council secretariat this morning, where Nikolai Bordyuzha familiarized himself with officials of the administration and documents of the secretariat," Kuznetsov told Interfax-Military News Agency.
According to him, Bordyuzha is taking over the affairs of his predecessor Valery Nikolayenko. "Officially this procedure is to take 10 days, but the Collective Security Council secretariat will cope with it much faster," Kuznetsov said.
Bordyuzha is not planning any foreign trips in the near future, he went on. "Nikolai Bordyuzha is planning to thoroughly study the package of documents passed at the Collective Security Council summit in Dushanbe that deal with the establishment of a new full-scale military and political alliance called the Collective Security Treaty Organization. Then he will hold a meeting with envoys of the Organization's member nations. The date of the meeting is not yet determined," Kuznetsov said.
The Collective Security Treaty includes Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Tajikistan.
Bordyuzha's predecessor Valery Nikolayenko was removed from this position upon expiration of his three-year term in office.
Bordyuzha was born in the Russian city of Oryol on October 20, 1948. He graduated from the command and engineering military school in Perm in 1972. Bordyuzha joined the KGB in 1975 and successfully completed military counterintelligence courses the following year. He was deputy commander of the Federal Border Guard Service between 1992 and 1995 and its deputy director for the next three years. Bordyuzha served as the Federal Border Guard Service director between January and September 1998. Then, he was appointed Russian Security Council secretary. In December 1998, Bordyuzha was named presidential administration head. In April 1999, Bordyuzha was appointed head of the State Customs Committee. He served as Russian ambassador to Denmark from December 22, 1999.
Bordyuzha was dismissed from that post in mid-April in connection with the new appointment to the position of secretary general of the Collective Security Council.