DUSHANBE, May 12, 2014, Asia-Plus — Like other member nations of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO – Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Russia), Tajikistan has no mandate for participation in peacekeeping operation in Ukraine because Ukraine is not a member nation of the Organization, Tajik lawmaker Shodi Shabdolov, who is also the leader of the Communist Party of Tajikistan (CPT), told Asia-Plus Monday afternoon.
According to him, report released by some Russia media sources that during a May 8 informal meeting of the presidents of the CSTO member nations in Moscow, Russia President Vladimir Putin Russia allegedly sought support of his counterparts from the CSTO member nations for carrying out peacekeeping operation in Ukraine as absolutely baseless.
The CSTO can interfere in the situation only in the case of an external threat to one of its member nations, CPT leader stressed.
“Actually, during the CSTO informal summit that took place in Moscow on May 8, Russian not only demonstrated its military strength to its allies; it also showed that it is not the neglected stepchild of global policy,” Shabdolov noted.
CPT leader predicts that southeast of Ukraine, were self-rule referendums were held, will be united into a federal republic in order to block the way to neofascism.
Shodi Shabdolov, 70, has been the chairman of the Communist Party of Tajikistan since 1991. He is also Tajikistan’s oldest active parliamentarian (21 years). Shodi Shabdolov graduated from Tajik Technical Institute; he has scientific degree of Candidate of Sciences in Economics.
