MINSK. July 11 (Interfax-AVN) - Secretary General of the Collective Security Council Nikolai Bordyuzha said on Friday that his meeting with Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko and senior officials of the Belarussian law-enforcement agencies and Foreign Ministry were the aim of his trip to Belarus.
According to him, "we were supposed to discuss further activity in the framework of the Collective Security Treaty Organization and report our views on starting practical actions in the framework of the organization."
Bordyuzha noted that the meeting in Minsk addressed the situation in the treaty's operation area and the proposals "that can be currently implemented to withstand the challenges and threats existing in the treaty's sphere of activity."
Belarussian Foreign Minister Sergei Martynov said after meeting with Bordyuzha on Friday morning that Belarus "attaches great significance to activity of the Collective Security Treaty Organization that is undergoing transformation into an international organization."
"We consider that this organization is a very important component of maintaining security of Belarus. The republic is ready to take an active part in the organization's activity, including coordination in the foreign policy sphere," he said.
According to the minister, Minsk is sure that after "undergoing a transformation similar to the current transformation of NATO, the Collective Security Treaty Organization will become one of the most important factors of security in the Eurasian area along with NATO."