CSTO Rapid Response Forces do not interfere in internal affairs of states

The Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) will not prevent the transit of weapons from Afghanistan via CSTO member states, CSTO Secretary General Nikolai Bordyuzah stated, when delivering a lecture at the Kyrgyz-Russian Slavonic University in Bishkek, Rosbalt reported.

“What is the use of preventing the transit of arms? The operation in Afghanistan is in the interests of all countries,” Bordyuzha said.

He also stressed that the Collective Rapid Response Forces of CSTO do not interfere in internal political affairs of other states. In Bordyuzha’s words, CSTO Rapid Response Forces do not act like an international gendarme because these forces were established for the fight against armed gangs and not against civilians.