Kazakh parliament ratifies agreements on cooperation within CSTO

Azerbaijan, Baku, March 15 / Trend E. Kosolapova/ The Kazakh Senate (upper house of parliament) adopted a law to ratify Agreement on the Collective Security Treaty Organization members' cooperation on development, production, use, repair, modernization, prolongation of operation life and utilization of military products at a plenary meeting on Thursday, Novosti-Kazakhstan reported. Under the agreement, the parties will cooperate in such areas as development and production of military products, exploitation of weapons and military equipment, training of specialists for use of weapons and military equipment, and repair and its utilization after expiration of service term. According to the agreement, the CSTO members cooperate in military-technical and military-economic spheres. Moreover, the Senate ratified the protocol on ensuring technical and informational compatibility of weapons and military equipment of the Collective Security Treaty Organization's system. The protocol is aimed at the implementation of common approaches in use of formations and units provided from National troops and forces of CSTO's members for the organization's collective security forces. Moreover, the protocol ensures efficient management of forces of the collective security system and creates conditions to meet its needs. The Joint Staff of the Organization should form a list of parameters and characteristics of weapons and military equipment according to proposals of the defense ministries of CSTO members. This list will be approved and will be compulsory. The documents are submitted to the Kazakh President for signing. The Collective Security Treaty Organization is an intergovernmental military alliance of Post-soviet countries. It was created in 1992. The CSTO charter reaffirmed the desire of all participant countries to abstain from using threat of force. Signatories would not be able to join other military alliances or other groups of states, while aggression against one signatory would be considered as an aggression against all. CSTO members are Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. Do you have any feedback? Contact our journalist at agency@trend.az