DUSHANBE, June 12, Asia-Plus – The Permanent Council of the Collective Security Organization Treaty (CSTO) has met to discuss issues related to preferential terms for delivery of equipment for special services and law enforcement agencies of member nations of the Organization, the CSTO press service said. 

The equipment for them will be supplied at domestic prices of country of production, according to the press service.  

The press service says it is done under the agreement on military-technical cooperation, which provides preferential military-technical cooperation.   It will allow developing ally’s relations in the field of addressing transnational challenges and threats.  

“Under the draft document projected at the meeting, the sides should not hand over or sale special equipments and means, supplied under the agreement, to the third parties and should observe rights of producers of intellectual property,” the CSTO press service said.  

CSTO members - Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan - use the organization as a platform to fight drug trafficking, terrorism, and organized crime, and have pledged to provide immediate military assistance to one another in the event of an attack.

The bloc has a Collective Rapid Reaction Force deployed in Central Asia, and is continuing to build up its military forces.

In June 2007, Kyrgyzstan assumes the rotating CSTO presidency.  The CSTO is an observer organization at the United Nations General Assembly.