Serzh Sargsyan: Military development strategy - an opportunity to achieve security and stability in the entire area of the CSTO's responsibility

 Systematic development and improvement of the CSTO's military component will, undoubtedly, help ensuring stability and security in the area of the Organization's responsibility and upgrading its authority in the international security system, says the welcoming speech of Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan addressed at the participants in the Second Strategic Political Forum "Political and Security Landmarks for Formation of CSTO's Military Component." 

"Systematic and complex implementation of the decisions of the CSTO Collective Security Council will allow improving mechanisms of timely detention and prevention new challenges and threats of the 21st century. The given decisions rely on the system analysis of relevant problems of security and sustainable development of the commonwealth of the CSTO member-states and predetermines the major landmarks of the development of our collective security. In this light, I am sure that the Second Strategic Political Forum of leading specialists of the CSTO member-states and our respectful partners will allow realizing the practical importance of implementing the above decisions and developing scientific approaches to their implementation," the president says in his address.

The president welcomes the fact that Armenia along with its CSTO allies has become an acknowledged academic space for exchange of creative ideas regarding modernization of the Organization in line with the logic of its purposeful transformation into an up-to-date multi-functional international system of collective security of a new quality.

"Combined work of highly-qualified scientists of our countries reflects CSTO's aspiration to be the first in the search for the most effective ways of peace and security guarantees in the Eurasian space. We think that a military development strategy is an opportunity to achieve security and stability in the entire area of the CSTO's responsibility," the president's address reads.

The Second Strategic Political Forum "Political and Security Landmarks for Formation of CSTO's Military Component" kicked off in Yerevan on June 26. Defense Minister Seyran Ohanyan, Secretary of the NAtional Security Council Arthur Baghdasaryan, CSTO Secretary General Nikolay Bodyuzha welcomed the participants in the event.

The keynote speakers at the forum are Defense Minister Seyran Ohanyan, CSTO Secretary General Nikolay Bodyuzha, and Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Shavarsh Kocharyan. The forum will over on June 27. The event organizers are the Institute of National and International Studies of the Armenian Defense Ministry, CSTO Secretariat, and CSTO Institute autonomous non-commercial organization.