CSTO secretary calls on member states to pool anti-extremism efforts

BISHKEK, February 15 (Itar-Tass) - The secretary general of the
Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), Nikolai Bordyuzha, has
called on CSTO member countries to pool their anti-extremism efforts,
since this threat is topical for each of them.
"The last year's developments in Kyrgyzstan's southern regions and in Tajikistan are on the same line. The CSTO member states must coordinate their efforts to work under a single plan," the press service of the Kyrgyz government cited Bordyuzha saying at a meeting with Kyrgyzstan's Deputy Prime Minister and Secretary of the country's Defence Council Shamil Atakhanov on Tuesday.
Bordyuzha welcomed the Kyrgyzstan's decision to resume the activity of the country's drug control authority and promised that the CSTO would offer any possible assistance in its anti-drug efforts, the press service reported. "It is necessary to enhance the professional level of Kyrgyzstan's law enforcers, and make the best use of CSTO opportunities for these ends," Bordyuzha said.
Atakhanov pledged his country "will take all measures to promote
comprehensive cooperation within the CSTO." He said he was sure that CSTO member states "will continue active and constructive work to ensure national, regional and international security, to counteract transnational challenges and threats" in the CSTO responsibility zone.
The CSTO secretary general arrived in the Kyrgyz capital late on
Monday. During his three-day stay in Kyrgyzstan, he will meet with the
country's President Roza Otunbayeva and parliament speaker Akhmatbek
Keldibekov to discuss military and technical cooperation.