Uzbekistan finally issued his return to the CSTO

On Friday, at a plenary meeting, Senate Oliy Mazhlis (Upper House of Parliament) of Uzbekistan approved the Law "On the accession of the Republic of Uzbekistan to a collective security agreement", as well as a block of legal acts related to the restoration of the country in the CSTO, Interfax reports. Now the Law on the supply of equipment and weapons at domestic prices will automatically spread to Uzbekistan.

CSTO, or as it is also called - "Mini -Warsaw Treaty". It includes six of the 15 former Soviet republics: Russia, Belarus, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. Uzbekistan joined the CSTO in 1992 and suspended its membership in it in 1998.

As the senators noted, "the accession of the republic to the contract is based on the principles of strengthening peace and stability, international and regional security, non-use of force or threat of force in interstate relations, protection on the collective basis of independence, territorial integrity and sovereignty of member states, proceeding from the sovereign right of Uzbekistan." The approved documents, parliamentarians believe, comply with the constitutions, the laws "On the basic principles of foreign policy activities of the Republic of Uzbekistan", "On Defense", "On International Treaty of the Republic of Uzbekistan" and other regulatory acts of the country.

Now the documents adopted by the Legislative Chamber and approved by the Senate are sent to the signature of the head of state Islam Karimov.

Recall that in December 2006, the President of Uzbekistan signed the Law "On ratification of the protocol on the restoration of the membership of the Republic of Uzbekistan in the organization of the Collective Security Treaty." The protocol on the restoration of the republic’s membership in the CSTO was signed in Sochi on August 16, 2006.

The bill on the ratification of this document was adopted by the lower house of the country's parliament on November 21 and approved by the Senate on December 1, 2006.

As previously reported, at a meeting in Sochi in September 2006, then Minister of Defense Sergei Ivanov said that as soon as all legal formalities in Uzbekistan’s passage in the CSTO are deceived, the republic will be able to purchase military equipment and weapons at domestic prices of the Russian Federation.