MOSCOW. Dec 30 (Interfax-AVN) - The Collective Security Treaty Organization has been registered with the UN as a regional international organization, Secretary General of the Organization Nikolai Bordyuzha said on Tuesday.
"Tajikistan's Permanent Representative to the UN Rashid Alimov has reported to our secretariat that the UN completed registration of the CSTO's charter as the charter of a regional international organization on December 26," Bordyuzha told Interfax-Military News Agency.
The CSTO registration with the UN will help member nations of the Organization to strengthen their positions "in all pressing international and regional security issues," he stressed.
"We are planning to file a request with the UN Headquarters for granting the status of UN observer to the CSTO in early 2004," Bordyuzha added.
The Collective Security Treaty Organization brings together Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Ruwssia and Tajikistan. The presidents of the Organization's member nations signed the CSTO Charter and an agreement on the Organization's legal status in Chisinau on October 7, 2002.
The Organization's permanent bodies are the Permanent Council of Envoys who are appointed by each member nation of the CSTO, and the Unified HQ that will become the working body of the CSTO Defense Ministers Council on January 1, 2004.