MOSCOW, February 28. /TASS/. The Collective Security Treaty Organization is set to become part of a broader security architecture across Eurasia, Mikael Aghasandyan, director of the First Department of CIS Countries at the Russian Foreign Ministry, said in an interview with a media outlet called "Allies. CSTO".
"What we currently have is not only well-coordinated Collective Forces, but also effective tools to combat terrorism, drug trafficking, illegal migration, IT crimes and other threats," he said. "We can rightfully regard the CSTO as a key mechanism for ensuring security and stability in its area of responsibility, along the outer perimeter of the territories of our countries, and in general in the Eurasian space. We hope that in the future the CSTO will become part of a broader security architecture on the continent."
According to Aghasandyan, the CSTO has the potential to become one of the key elements of the new architecture.
"Its formation objectively meets the interests of Russia and its allies and all the other countries of the Eurasian space alike. We stand for building on our common continent an inclusive system of intergovernment arrangements and institutions that are not directed against anyone and guarantee the indivisibility of the security of all its participants," he went on to say. "We are based on the assumption that Eurasians bear the responsibility for their own security."