Post-Soviet military bloc signs agreement on military contingent, cargo transportation

DUSHANBE, September 15. /TASS/. Member states of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), the Moscow-led security alliance of former-Soviet republics, signed an agreement on military contingent and cargo transportation, Serzh Sargsyan, the president of Armenia, said on Tuesday. "An agreement was signed on cooperation in the sphere of transporting military contingent and moveable property as well as military-purpose products," Sargsyan told journalists following the summit of the CSTO member states in Tajikistan. The Armenian leader added that the CSTO members also decided to extend an agreement on the logistics and technical support of railways in the countries of the post-Soviet security bloc. The Collective Security Treaty was signed in 1992 and the organization itself was set up 10 years later. Russia, which held the presidency in the CSTO, passed the rotating chair this year to Tajikistan. The CSTO, which is comprised of Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, regularly holds military drills on the territories of its member states. Read more