OREANDA-NEWS. September 5, 2008. The CSTO member states urge Nato to weigh all the possible consequences of its expansion eastwards and deployment of new anti-missile assets on the borders of the CSTO member states, says the declaration adopted at the Moscow session of the CSTO Collective Security Council.

The CSTO member states announced the necessity to resume an efficient arms control mechanism in Europe.

The CSTO advocates the further universalization and strengthening of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and 2010 NPT Review Conference.

The signatories of the declaration expressed a serious concern over the proliferation of the land-based intermediate-range and short-range missiles, including their proliferation in the vicinity of the CSTO zone of responsibility. The CSTO member states do not possess this kind of weapons and they welcome the initiatives to work out a universally accepted agreement on the total elimination and ban of these two types of missiles.

The CSTO member states declared their intention to streamline the organization. They also praised the CSTO and OSCE joint actions to fight terrorism, illicit drugs, illegal migration and to strengthen border security.

The document says that international, regional and local conflicts and crises should be settled through diplomacy in compliance with the international law and taking into consideration the interests of all the sides involved.

The CSTO member states also called for the settlement of the so-called frozen conflicts solely by diplomatic means