AKIPRESS.COM - Like other member nations of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, Tajikistan has no mandate for participation in peacekeeping operation in Ukraine because Ukraine is not a member nation of the Organization, Tajik lawmaker and leader of the Communist Party of Tajikistan (CPT) Shodi Shabdolov said in an interview with Asia-Plus.

He stressed that reports released by some Russia media that during an informal meeting of the presidents of the CSTO member nations in Moscow on May 8 Russia allegedly sought support from the CSTO nations for carrying out peacekeeping operation in Ukraine is absolutely baseless.

The CSTO can interfere in the situation only in the case of an external threat to one of its member nations, CPT leader added.

CPT leader predicts that southeast of Ukraine, where self-rule referendums were held, will be united into a federal republic in order to block the way to neofascism.

Shodi Shabdolov, 70, has been the chairman of the Communist Party of Tajikistan since 1991. He is also Tajikistan’s oldest active parliamentarian (21 years).