DUSHANBE, March 10, 2015, Asia-Plus – The Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) Secretary-General Nikolay Bordyuzha is expected to arrive in Dushanbe tomorrow on a four-day working visit.
While in Dushanbe, the CSTO secretary-general is scheduled to hold talks with Tajik President Emomali Rahmon to discuss agreements regarding strengthening of the Tajik-Afghan border that were reached within the framework of the CSTO and Tajikistan’s plan for the period of its rotating presidency of the Organization.
Nikolay Bordyuzha is a Russian general and politician. He graduated from Perm Military School of the High Command of the Russian Strategic Rocket Forces in 1972 and later attended KGB intelligence courses in Novosibirsk. From 1989 to 1991, he was head of KGB human resources, and from 1992 to 1998 served as First Deputy Chief and later Chief of Russia”s Federal Border Guard Service. On December 7, 1998, he was appointed Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, and also Chief of the Russian presidential administration. He served in this position until March 18, 1999. During this period he was viewed by some analysts as a possible successor to President Boris Yeltsin. From 1999 to 2003, Bordyuzha served as the Russian Ambassador to Denmark. On April 28, 2003, he was appointed Secretary General of the Collective Security Treaty Organization. Bordyuzha holds the rank of Colonel-General.
The regional security organization was initially set up in 1992 in a meeting in Tashkent and Uzbekistan once already suspended its membership in 1999. However, Tashkent returned to the CSTO again in 2006 The regional security organization was initially formed in 1992 for a five-year period by the members of the CIS Collective Security Treaty (CST) — Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan, which were joined by Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Belarus the following year. A 1994 treaty reaffirmed the desire of all participating states to abstain from the use or threat of force, and prevented signatories from joining any “other military alliances or other groups of states” directed against members states. The CST was then extended for another five-year term in April 1999, and was signed by the presidents of Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, and Tajikistan. In October 2002, the group was renamed as the CSTO. Uzbekistan that suspended its membership in 1999 returned to the CSTO again in 2006 after it came under international criticism for its brutal crackdown of antigovernment demonstrations in the eastern city of Andijon in May 2005. On June 28, 2012, Uzbekistan announced that it has suspended its membership of the CSTO, saying the organization ignores Uzbekistan and does not consider its views. The CSTO is currently an observer organization at the United Nations General Assembly.
