CSTO leaders agreed to enhance the Organization's role - Alexander Lukashenko
19:37, 12 August 2011
TANA. August 12. KAZINFORM /Kanat Kulshmanov/ CSTO heads of state have agreed to enhance the Organization's role, President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko made public at a briefing in Astana.
"We have an absolutely critical approach to the work that was carried out in the Collective Security Treaty Organization and, first of all we pointed out a number of shortcomings, including those of internal nature," Lukashenko told journalists after the CSTO informal meeting.
"This year we will take a series of steps that will enhance the role of the Organization," he stressed.
According to him, the leaders of the CSTO member countries intend to ratify joint documents by December 2011.