Bordyuzha: CSTO identifies problems in crisis response mechanisms

According to Nikolai Bordyuzha, modeling a crisis situation development in one of the states unearthed a lot of practical issues. It concerned, first of all, the work of the monitoring group, consideration of urgent documents, extraordinary meetings of the Collective Security Council, discussion of a crisis situation via videoconferencing.

As for the session of the CSTO Foreign Ministers Council on 31 May, Nikolai Bordyuzha said that a lot was considered. "Today's major task is not the creation of a legal framework and preparation of the documents, but adjustment of the existing mechanisms and putting the current cooperation into practice," he said.

The agenda of the session included the situation analysis, development tendencies with a glance at the processes in the Middle East, South Africa, CSTO countries. Moreover, the session focused on the foreign policy coordination. According to Nikolai Bordyuzha, this work is well-organized, however, due to some reasons expected results are hard to achieve.

Participants of the session discussed the mitigation of contemporary challenges and threats. The CSTO made a great difference in preventing illegal migration, drug trafficking, information security, mitigation of emergency situations.

According to Nikolai Bordyuzha, the organization is to give special attention to such Belarus' initiatives as peacemaking and the CSTO Partnership Institute. Belarus put forward these initiatives at the session in Moscow in December 2010. Nikolai Bordyuzha said that the organization has done a lot in peacemaking and held consultations in the United Nations Organization. When speaking about the Partnership Institute, Nikolai Bordyuzha said that the organization started working on it long ago.