Leaders of the CSTO member states to discuss possible responses to NATO’s growing activity at the summit on December 26

Almaty. December 13. Silkroadnews – The Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) member-states’ leaders will discuss how to respond to the growing activity of NATO along the borders of the military bloc at the summit to take place on December 26, the CSTO Secretary General Nikolay Bordyuzha said.

“We must clearly grasp what is happening around our borders, why NATO is building up arms and infrastructure. It deploys four additional battalions to alliance member states in Eastern Europe. Why are they doing it? We cannot remain silent and do nothing, looking at how countries around us are being crammed with weapons, and troops being moved”, N. Bordyuzha told in his interview to newspaper “Izvestia”.

According to the CSTO Secretary General, it is important to understand changes in the overall security situation and how to respond to these changes “not to be late”.

He noted that a military build-up is so far out of the question, and at the upcoming meeting the presidents of the member states are going to discuss various aspects of the international agenda, including the Eurasian integration issues. The summit agenda also includes the issue of the procedure for the organization’s Secretary General appointment.

The CSTO Summit at the level of the Heads of the States will be held in St. Petersburg on December 26. The CSTO consists of Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Tajikistan.