YEREVAN. – Armenia, as the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) chairing country, stands ready to actively assist in addressing this organization’s challenges and fulfilling its objectives, including the fight against illegal drug trafficking.

President Serzh Sargsyan noted the aforesaid at his talk Thursday with the director of the Federal Drug Control Service of the Russian Federation, Viktor Ivanov, who is also Chairman of the Coordination Council of the Heads of the CSTO Competent Bodies on Response to Illegal Drug Trafficking.

Ivanov is in Armenia to participate in the 17th meeting of the above-said coordination council.

The President expressed the hope that the event was productive. Sargsyan also noted that one of the CSTO’s main activities is to coordinate the member countries’ efforts in combating modern-day challenges and threats.

The interlocutors underscored bilateral cooperation considering that collaboration between the law enforcement agencies of the two countries has a special place on the agenda of Armenian-Russian allied relations.