CSTO security secretaries drafted proposals on Kyrgyz settlement

MOSCOW, June 14 (Itar-Tass) -- Security council secretaries from the
Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) member states, who gathered
for emergency consultations on Monday in Moscow, have drafted concrete
proposals to ease interethnic tension in Kyrgyzstan, to contain illegal
activities of criminal groups, to prevent extremist actions and to step up
border security.
"In the long run we have squared the positions of security council
secretaries, drafted measures to be reported to CSTO presidents. We hope
these measures will be promptly agreed," said Nikolai Patrushev, the
Russian Security Council Secretary and Chairman of the CSTO Security
Secretaries Committee.
According to Patrushev, while drafting measures to be submitted to
CSTO heads of state, participants in the consultations "did not rule out
any means available at the CSTO and applicable depending on the
development of the situation in Kyrgyzstan."
In their joint statement, the CSTO security secretaries expressed
"serious concern over the recent developments in the southern regions of
Kyrgyzstan claiming numerous human lives and entailing massive disorders,
loots and riots."
"Illegal activities and crime outbursts have been reported in
Kyrgyzstan for a long time, and measures taken by the Kyrgyz interim are
not enough to stabilize the situation in the country," the statement said.
They urged the Kyrgyz interim government to "take all necessary steps
to restore of order in the country and to ensure security of its
citizens," and the Kyrgyz people "not to yield to provocations and
instigation, and to abstain from violence as a means to solve the
problems."
The consultations were attended by security council secretaries from
Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Russia, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan, and by a
Kyrgyz envoy to the CSTO. The emergency meeting was initiated by Russian
President Dmitry Medvedev who is chairing the CSTO Collective Security
Council.
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