The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) seeks more active cooperation with the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) over Afghanistan, the OSCE's top official said here Wednesday.

"Afghanistan is a place where we can strength cooperation between the OSCE and the CSTO," the OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier said at a meeting of the CSTO Permanent Council held in Moscow.

Zannier said the OSCE is looking for opportunity to use CSTO's capabilities to guarantee security and stability in Afghanistan after 2014.

In 2014, NATO-led International Security Assistance Forces plan to withdraw from Afghanistan, where they have been deployed since December 2001.

For his part, Nikolai Bordyuzha, the CSTO Secretary General, said the cooperation between the two organizations encompasses many spheres, including fighting terrorism and drag trafficking.

"We are ready to consider new initiatives regarding the security joint projects, in Central Asia in particular, especially in the context of upcoming withdrawal of the coalition forces from Afghanistan in 2014," Bordyuzha said.

He also confirmed CSTO's readiness to close links with the OSCE in ensuring security in Eurasia.

The OSCE had already experience in cooperation with the CSTO in Afghanistan, where the two geopolitical entities conducted a number of anti-drug operations in 2011-2012.

Besides, the OSCE runs its Academy in Kyrgyz capital Bishkek since 2002, which works as a regional center of postgraduate education and as a forum for regional security dialogue and research.

Founded in May 2002 under the framework of the Commonwealth of Independent States, currently the six-member CSTO groups Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.

With 56 states of Europe, Central Asia and North America, the OSCE is the world's largest inter-regional security organization. Endi

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