FROM JOSEPH FARAH'S G2 BULLETIN
U.N. opens door for Moscow's 'military action'
Kremlin-led group granted sole authority in 'post-Soviet space'
Posted: March 27, 2010
2:05 am Eastern
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The United Nations has given a Russian-led security group the authority to initiate military action in the Caucasus and Central Asia without first obtaining international approval, according to a report from Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin.
The decision would allow the Kremlin-led Collective Security Treaty Organization, or CSTO, to initiate military action for any reason without U.N. approval, as it did in August 2008 with its invasion of the former Soviet republic of Georgia.
It also could bring the CSTO into direct conflict with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, or NATO, which seeks eastward expansion in the same region covered by the CSTO.
In addition to Russia, CSTO members include Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and CSTO Secretary-General Nikolay Bordyuzha signed a document that recognizes CSTO's regional authority. It is similar to one that the U.N. has signed with other regional organizations.
The document gives the CSTO authority to cooperate with the U.N. in such areas as "conflict prevention and conflict resolution and combating terrorism, transnational criminality, illegal arms trafficking."
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