DUSHANBE, May 28, 2013, Asia-Plus – Russian news website
Russkaya Planeta
(Russian Planet) reports that defense ministers from the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) have discussed in Bishkek the possible catastrophe that could happen after withdrawal of the NATO-led forces from Afghanistan – military threat, intensification of drug trafficking and illegal migration.
Speaking at the CSTO defense ministers’ meeting in Bishkek, the Kyrgyz defense minister and current CSTO chairman, Taalaybek Omuraliyev, said on May 27 that he will seek to raise the CSTO”s military potential ahead of the NATO pullout from Afghanistan.
Defense ministers from CSTO member nations signed agreements on joint combat training and a list of military weapons required by the group.
A meeting of the committee of national security secretaries was also held in Bishkek on May 27 and its participants discussed issues of regional concern, including cybercime. They also discussed the fight against extremism.
Meanwhile, Russian experts noted that the current situation in Afghanistan is not easy.
“Americans dot not have certain plans on securing the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan and they do not know what will happen after that,” Vladimir Zharikhin, the deputy director of the Russian Institute of CIS Countries, was quoted as saying by
Russkaya Planeta
.
According to him, after the withdrawal of NATO-led troops, the situation in Afghanistan will be chaotic and this will affect, first of all, the Central Asian nations bordering on Afghanistan.
