CIS security chief in Kazakhstan urges "uniform standards" for armed forces
Astana, 12 May: Service in the CSTO [Collective Security Treaty Organization; members are Armenia, Belarus,
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Russia] member states' armed forces should be based on uniform standards,
the secretary-general of the CSTO, Nikolay Bordyuzha, told journalists following the meeting with Kazakh President
Nursultan Nazarbayev in Astana on 12 May.
Speaking about military cooperation within the CSTO, Bordyuzha stressed that it was necessary to perfect the system
of Collective Rapid Deployment Forces [CRDF] in Central Asia. In particular, he clarified, this is about the need to
introduce uniform standards for the armed forces of the CSTO member states, including military equipment, and boost
military-economic cooperation.
"We should perfect the CRDF in Central Asia as well as regional forces existing today. We are talking about the
necessity to introduce uniform standards, we are talking about giving an impetus to military-technical
cooperation," Bordyuzha said.
[Passage omitted: background on the CSTO]
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