President of Russia
  • Events
  • Structure
  • Videos and Photos
  • Documents
  • Contacts
  • Search
  • Search this website
President of Russia
Mobile version

President's
website
sections

  • Events
  • Structure
  • Videos and Photos
  • Documents
  • Contacts
  • Search
  • Search
  • For the Media
  • Subscribe
  • Directory
  • Version for People with Disabilities
  • YouTube Channel
  • Русский

President's
website
resources

  • President of RussiaCurrent resource
  • The Constitution of Russia
  • State Insignia
  • Send a Letter
  • Vladimir Putin’s Personal Website

Special
animal welfare
projects

  • Amur tiger
  • Beluga whale
  • Polar bear
  • Snow leopard
  • Far Eastern leopard

Legal
and technical
information

  • About website
  • Using website content
  • Personal data of website users
  • Contact website team

All content on this site is licensed under

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Presidential Executive Office2023
Events

Reply to Question at Press Conference of Heads of Collective Security Treaty Member States

April 28, 2003
00:00
Dushanbe

Question: In what fashion will the new organization build relations in the matter of ensuring security in Central Asia and Middle Asia with the SCO and CIS?

Vladimir Putin: The purpose and meaning of the activities of the Collective Security Treaty Organization is to ensure the security, territorial integrity and sovereignty of member countries. This is the principal task. We proceeded on this assumption and recently worked persistently to make its work efficient. For this purpose we had to create the necessary instruments.

We have today conclusively agreed as to what kind of instruments those will be — unified headquarters, the approval of rapid deployment forces. And, as my colleagues have already said here, with definite military components. It is also political activity, the coordination of positions, of which my colleagues have already spoken. All this combined must ensure the accomplishment of the tasks which face the Collective Security Treaty Organization. The other organizations of a regional character, like the SCO and CIS, do not have such instruments, but common tasks exist and one of the most important is to fight against terrorism and the narco-threat.

It means that organizations of this kind — and those you've mentioned — should not interfere with each other, but — I am sure — supplement each other. This I do not doubt.

Thank you.

Publication status

Published in section: Transcripts

Publication date: April 28, 2003, 00:00

Direct link: en.kremlin.ru/d/21982

Text version

Text

Share
Direct link
http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/transcripts/21982
Share
  • VK
  • LiveJournal
  • Send by email
  • Print
Send by email

Official Website of the President of Russia:

Reply to Question at Press Conference of Heads of Collective Security Treaty Member States

http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/transcripts/21982

Last updated at March 20, 2015, 18:00

Официальные сетевые ресурсы

Президента России

Official Internet Resources

of the President of Russia

Русский Английский
  • For the Media
  • Version for People with Disabilities
  • Telegram channel
  • YouTube Channel
  • State Insignia
  • Send a Letter
  • Vladimir Putin’s Personal Website
  • Putin. 20 years

Presidential Executive Office
2023