MOSCOW. July 23 (Interfax-AVN) - Envoys of the Collective Security Treaty Organization's member nations have held consultations at the Collective Security Council secretariat, the press service of the secretariat said on Wednesday.
The council's secretary general Nikolai Bordyuzha informed participants in the consultations on his meetings with Presidents Nursultan Nazarbayev and Alexander Lukashenko during his working visits to Kazakhstan and Belarus, the press service told Interfax- Military News Agency.
Participants in the consultations paid special attention to the documents regulating the activity and funding of the organization's unified headquarters and to the funding of the Collective Rapid-Deployment Forces in Central Asia.
The Collective Security Treaty of May 15, 1992 brings together Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Tajikistan. The Collective Rapid-Deployment Forces were established on May 25, 2001 by a decision of the Russian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz and Tajik presidents. They number about 1,300 personnel.