Azerbaijan, Baku, May 21 / Trend E. Kosolapova /
The situation in Afghanistan will worsen after the withdrawal of the major international forces in 2014 and the member countries of the Collective Security Treaty Organization should be ready for this deterioration, Novosti-Kazakhsatan quoted the CSTO Secretary General Nikolai Bordyuzha as saying.
"The situation will, of course, change. We believe that it will change for the worse, and we should be ready to neutralize the additional problems which may arise," Bordyuzha said at a press conference on Monday.
Bordyuzha noted that the resumption of the work of the 'six' negotiators on the Afghan problem in the updated format of the 'six plus three', proposed by Uzbekistan, could contribute to the settlement of the situation in Afghanistan.
Earlier Uzbek President Islam Karimov proposed to reorganize the 'six plus two' format planned in 1997 for the settlement of the situation in Afghanistan (China, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Iran and Pakistan, Russia and the U.S.) in the 'six plus three' format (with the inclusion of NATO).
"The proposal, made by the Uzbekistan's president is quite reasonable. I think it will be a good contribution to the efforts, made by the international community to ensure stability in Afghanistan," Bordyuzha said.
The Collective Security Treaty Organization is an intergovernmental military alliance of Post-soviet countries. It was created in 1992. The CSTO charter reaffirmed the desire of all participant countries to abstain from using threat of force. Signatories would not be able to join other military alliances or other groups of states, while aggression against one signatory would be considered as an aggression against all. CSTO members are Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.
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