DUSHANBE, March 25, 2010, Asia-Plus  -- The Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) Secretary-General Nikolai Bordyuzha is arriving in Dushanbe on March 26 on a two-day working visit, Russian media reported.

It is the planned visit to discuss preparations for the upcoming CSTO summit scheduled for June this year, Mr. Bordyuzha told Russian reporters.

During his stay in Dushanbe, the CSTO secretary general is scheduled to hold talks with political and defense leadership of Tajikistan, including speaker of Tajik parliament’s lower house, Security Council secretary as well as foreign and defense ministers of Tajikistan.

Bordyuzha will also attend a roundtable meeting entitled “The System of Collective Security in the Central Asian Region: Prospects until 2015” that will take place in the Tajik capital on March 27.

Organized on an initiative of the CSTO Secretariat and Tajikistan’s Security Council under support from President Emomali Rahmon, the meeting is expected to bring together political scientists, experts and representatives from institutes for political studies and think tanks of Tajikistan.