CSTO to streamline crisis prevention.

MOSCOW, September 17 (Itar-Tass) -- Riots and mass disorders during
the latest political crisis in Kirgizia made the Collective Security
Treaty Organization (CSTO), of which Kirgizia is a member, consider
potential prevention of similar situations in future.
"The developments in Kirgizia showed that in some cases the
decision-making mechanisms either stuck or were not fast enough," CSTO
Secretary General Nikolai Bordyuzha told reporters on Thursday adding he
had informed President Dmitry Medvedev about the situation.
"I reported to the president: what has to be done so that we can take
preventive measures to cut short crises development," he said.
Bordyuzha stressed CSTO will not interfere into internal political
struggle. "CSTO will not take on any gendarme functions. We do not want to
interfere into political struggle and use CSTO for the protection of that
or another political force or for the resolution of internal political
problems. Therefore, we are very accurate with the creation of a crisis
reaction system," he said.
"The problems we encountered in the south of Kirgizia occurred because
the CSTO targets outside threats, first and foremost. The Organization
does not envisage use of force in response to internal problems of states.
Kirgizia's example showed that internal problems can seriously affect the
security of all states or countries of a certain region. Therefore, the
most complicated task which we are drafting in the normative base is to
divide CSTO activities in such a way so that it does no engage in police
functions, but reacts to the threats that can seriously affect security of
a state or a group of states," Bordyuzha said.
He recalled that heads of state of CSTO member-countries met in
Yerevan to discuss streamlining crisis reaction. CSTO currently unites
Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kirgizia, Russia, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan.