CSTO DEFENSE MINISTERS TO MEET IN MOSCOW ON JUNE 3

ArmInfo
2009-05-27 12:29:00

ArmInfo. Collective Security Treaty Organization Council of Defense
Ministers will meet in Moscow on June 3, CSTO International Public
Information Support Center (IPISC) national office in Yerevan told
ArmInfo.

Draft agenda of the meeting contains nearly 20 issues. The defense
ministers will study the fulfillment of the decision by the CSTO
National Security Council Extraordinary Summit on formation of
Collective Rapid Deployment Force and the legal basis prepared for
this purpose.

Chairman of the Council of Defense Ministers will report on the
measures taken as Part of the CSTO Coalition Ministry Building for 2010
and further prospects. The ministers will consider draft agreements
on basic principles of the system of secret management of forces and
system of collective security means, on material reserves to form
forces and means of this system etc.

The ministers are expected to study the Plan of Joint Actions
to contribute to stabilization of the situation in Aghanistan and
counteract challenges and threats from Afghanistan as well as the Plan
of Consultation of CSTO representative for foreign policy, security
and defense for second half of 2009 – first half of 2010. Armenia
assumed CSTO chairmanship from Kyrghyzstan in 2008.