CSTO Foreign Ministers in favor of fair elections in Afghanistan

Fuente: 
Kabar
Fecha de publicación: 
04 Abr 2014

Bishkek, April 4 / Kabar /. A meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) is held in Moscow with participation of Acting Kyrgyz Foreign Minister Erlan Abdyldaev on April 3, 2014.

The main item of the agenda was the issue of foreign policy coordination of CSTO members on topical issues of international security, the situation in the zone of responsibility and its neighboring areas, the press service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kyrgyz Republic reports. 

The participants of the meeting approved a plan of consultations between representatives of CSTO member states on foreign policy, security and defense in the second half of 2014 - the first half of 2015, and also listened to the reports of CSTO Secretary General on the Organization’s activity on development of cooperation in information sphere with civil society and youth.

The foreign ministers supported the updated list of topics of joint statements for the current year, and adopted the Statement of Foreign Ministers of CSTO member states in connection with the upcoming elections in Afghanistan.

In a statement, CSTO foreign ministers were in favor of holding a fair, transparent and democratic elections in the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, the results of which will reflect the will of the majority of the population and recognized as legitimate by all national forces within the country as well as international observers.

 

Source/Fuente: http://kabar.kg/eng/politics/full/9596