Azerbaijan, Baku, April 6 / Trend E. Kosolapova/
Collective Security Treaty Organization's Council of Foreign Ministers adopted a declaration on the establishment of cooperation with NATO, Kazakh Foreign Minister Yerzhan Kazykhanov said at the enlarged meeting of the Foreign Ministers Council of the CSTO member states on Friday, Novosti-KAzakhstan reported.
In November 2011 the Secretary General of CSTO Nikolai Bordyuzha said CSTO-NATO cooperation would benefit both organizations and enhance security level of these organizations' member countries. However, NATO showed no interest in this regard, Bordyuzha said.
"In my opinion, absence of cooperation affects first of all security of the NATO and the CSTO member states," Bordyuzha said.
Bordyuzha expressed confidence that the CSTO and NATO have many mutual interests, particularly in foreign policy, combating terrorism and drug trafficking, peacekeeping efforts and issues on compatibility of rapid deployment forces.
The Collective Security Treaty Organization is an intergovernmental military alliance of Post-soviet countries. It was created in 1992. CSTO members are Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.
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