Azerbaijan, Baku, Feb. 26 / Trend V. Zhavoronkova /
The Commonwealth of Independent States' (CIS) Executive Committee and the Collective Security Treaty Organization's secretariat (CSTO) plan to sign a cooperation document to avoid doubling in the work of the two organizations, the CIS Executive Committee said.
Signing of the document was discussed at the meeting of expert group held in the CIS Headquarter in Minsk on Feb. 26.
The protocol will allow avoiding unnecessary doubling and parallelism in the work of the two organizations, Toktasin Buzubayev, acting deputy chairman of the Executive Committee, said.
"In their Charters, both the CIS and the CSTO indicated strengthening peace, international and regional security. In this case the executive agencies of both organizations can find a platform for interaction," Buzubayev said.
The cooperation will be implemented via consultations, meetings of experts, joint conferences, exchange of documents, plans of work, inquiry and information-analytic materials, preparation of coordinated proposals and recommendations, mutual attendance at the meetings on security. Joint working groups are possible to be created to study concrete directions and problems.
Representatives of the Republic of Armenia, the Republic of Belorussia, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Republic of Kyrgyzstan, the Russian Federation, the Republic of Tajikistan, the Republic of Uzbekistan and the CIS Executive Committee attended the meeting.
The experts completely coordinated a project of the protocol to be submitted to consideration of the CIS Council of Foreign Ministers.
CSTO is the military-political union in the CIS established by former Soviet republics including Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Russia, Armenia, Belorussia, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan.
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