MOSCOW, December 28 (RIA Novosti) - The Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) does not see any reasons to establish additional military bases in the Central Asian region, CSTO Secretary General Nikolai Bordyuzha said Wednesday.
"The situation in Central Asia gives no grounds to establish additional military bases. The bases Russia has in Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Armenia are quite enough to provide for any CSTO activities," Bordyuzha told a news conference.
He stressed that the organization did not think there was more potential for conflict in the region now.
Bordyuzha also said the CSTO thought cooperation with NATO was an option but not an end in itself. "More active interaction between our organizations would be expedient. But establishing contacts with NATO is not an end in itself," he said.
