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12, 2010
Working visit of President Serzh Sargsyan to RF
President Serzh Sargsyan, who is in Moscow on a working visit, on December 9 participated at the 29th session of the Interstate Council of the EvrAsEs.
The session was attended by the Presidents of Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, as well as by the leaders of the EvrAsEs observer-states. Armenia attained observer status at the Organization in 2003.
In the framework of his working visit to Moscow President Serzh Sargsyan participated on December 10 in the works of the Collective Security Council of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO).
Discussed were over 30 agenda items pertinent to the enhanced efficiency of the emergency response system, status of the forces and means of the collective security structure, military and technical cooperation, information security and a number of other issues regulating CSTO activities in different areas.
In accordance with the previously reached agreement, the CSTO presidency, currently held by the Russian Federation, will be taken over by the Republic of Belarus.
At the session of the Collective Security Council the parties signed a declaration on the CSTO peace-keeping forces and adopted a statement of the CSTO member states.
Documents adopted during the session will allow the CSTO member states to respond more efficiently and timely to the emergency situations. Amendments to the documents were introduced according to the agreements reached by the parties during the August 20 unofficial summit of the Heads of the CSTO member states in Yerevan which took place in the wake of the tragic events in Kyrgyzstan in June 2010.
At the session of the CSTO Collective Security Council, the President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan made a statement.
(Statement of President is introduced completely in the section “Statements” of the Web)
On December 10, after the session of the CSTO Collective Security Council in Moscow, President Serzh Sargsyan participated at the meeting of the Heads of the CIS member states. At the meeting discussed were issues related to the enhancement of integration processes in the economic and humanitarian areas, increase of the security level and over two dozen issues pertinent to the cooperation in different areas and implementation of joint events.
In 2011, Tajikistan will assume the presidency of the CIS. It was decided that the next CIS Summit will be held in Dushanbe in September 2011 and another, unofficial summit – in the end of next year in Moscow.
The session was attended by the Presidents of Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, as well as by the leaders of the EvrAsEs observer-states. Armenia attained observer status at the Organization in 2003.
In the framework of his working visit to Moscow President Serzh Sargsyan participated on December 10 in the works of the Collective Security Council of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO).
Discussed were over 30 agenda items pertinent to the enhanced efficiency of the emergency response system, status of the forces and means of the collective security structure, military and technical cooperation, information security and a number of other issues regulating CSTO activities in different areas.
In accordance with the previously reached agreement, the CSTO presidency, currently held by the Russian Federation, will be taken over by the Republic of Belarus.
At the session of the Collective Security Council the parties signed a declaration on the CSTO peace-keeping forces and adopted a statement of the CSTO member states.
Documents adopted during the session will allow the CSTO member states to respond more efficiently and timely to the emergency situations. Amendments to the documents were introduced according to the agreements reached by the parties during the August 20 unofficial summit of the Heads of the CSTO member states in Yerevan which took place in the wake of the tragic events in Kyrgyzstan in June 2010.
At the session of the CSTO Collective Security Council, the President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan made a statement.
(Statement of President is introduced completely in the section “Statements” of the Web)
On December 10, after the session of the CSTO Collective Security Council in Moscow, President Serzh Sargsyan participated at the meeting of the Heads of the CIS member states. At the meeting discussed were issues related to the enhancement of integration processes in the economic and humanitarian areas, increase of the security level and over two dozen issues pertinent to the cooperation in different areas and implementation of joint events.
In 2011, Tajikistan will assume the presidency of the CIS. It was decided that the next CIS Summit will be held in Dushanbe in September 2011 and another, unofficial summit – in the end of next year in Moscow.