CSTO states to harmonize military legislation

MOSCOW. KAZINFORM Member states of the Collective Security Treaty Organization intend to harmonize the legislation on military affairs.
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The relevant agreement was reached at the session of the Council of the CSTO Parliamentary Assembly in Moscow on 6 November, BelTA learned from Vladimir Andreichenko, Chairman of the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of Belarus, after the session.

Vladimir Andreichenko said: "We see that the situation in the world is very disturbed, international relations are stressed. These days it is easy to raise tensions but very difficult to restore peace and calm, only titanic efforts can do it. Therefore, the session focused on what the CSTO has to accomplish to ensure security in the member states and the organization's responsibility area as well as overall security on the planet. Parliamentarians play an important role in these matters".

According to the MP, participants of the session decided to invite parliaments of China, India, Pakistan, and Mongolia as observers for the sake of cooperation with the CSTO Parliamentary Assembly. "I think it will greatly enhance the weight of the organization," he noted, BelTA reports.

Apart from that, it was decided that actions of the delegations of the CSTO member states in the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly will continue to be coordinated. "We've been doing it at the level of the heads of the delegations. The work has proven to be very good. It allows us to more effectively defend our national interests in the OSCE," stressed Vladimir Andreichenko.

The session of the Council of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Collective Security Treaty Organization took place in anticipation of the plenary session of the CSTO Parliamentary Assembly, which is scheduled to take place in Saint Petersburg on 27 November. Participants of the session discussed results of the summer session of the CSTO Parliamentary Assembly that took place in Baku on 28 June - 2 July 2014. Reports about the situation in Afghanistan after the latest presidential election were received. Participants of the session also discussed the address by the heads of the parliaments of the CSTO member states to the CSTO nations and the international community in view of the 70th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945.

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