ArmInfo.The Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the member states of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) following the meeting in Yerevan adopted a joint statement on international security issues. The statement reads, in part: "We, the CSTO member states, express deep concern over the ongoing degradation of the international security system.
We consider it important to reaffirm our position on upholding and strict observance of the principle of equal and indivisible security, which is fixed, in particular, at the highest level in a number of documents of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, including the 1999 OSCE Charter for European Security and the Astana Commemorative Declaration of the 2010 OSCE Summit. This principle consists in the inextricable link between the security of each state and the security of all other countries and the inadmissibility of strengthening the security of some states at the expense of the security of others. It is important to ensure its uniform interpretation among all OSCE participating States. We emphasize that, in accordance with the abovementioned documents, no state, group of states or organization can be vested with primary responsibility for maintaining peace and stability. We stand for the further strengthening of the dominant branch of the UN Security Council in maintaining international peace and security entrusted to it by the UN Charter. The CSTO member states call for building a world free from wars and conflicts, violence and pressure, for the development of comprehensive, equal and mutually beneficial cooperation, for the achievement of a comprehensive, sustainable and cooperation-based security, taking into account the interests of all states and peoples. The statement was signed by the heads of the foreign ministries of Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Tajikistan.