Collective Security Treaty Organization members pooling efforts against common challenges - official

MOSCOW. July 24 (Interfax-AVN) - The member nations of the Collective Security Treaty Organization pool efforts against threats and challenges, not against any country, Secretary General of the Collective Security Council Nikolai Bordyuzha said on Thursday.

"The nations of the Collective Security Treaty Organization are friends against the challenges that seriously concern all the nations. These are drugs, terrorism and terrorist groups, illegal migration, slave trade, and organized criminal gangs in specific industries," Bordyuzha told reporters when asked whom the member nations of the Collective Security Organization pull efforts against.

All the members of the organization are combating the above- mentioned threats, the secretary general said. "In my opinion, the goal of the Collective Security Treaty Organization is to coordinate and bring together the efforts to have this work conducted on a permanent basis. At the moment, there are no requisites for us becoming friends against a specific nation," he noted.

The Collective Security Treaty Organization brings together Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Tajikistan.