CSTO Defense Ministers Council meet in Moscow

        A meeting of the Defense Ministers Council of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) takes place in Moscow, BelTA qoutes SCTO Spokesman Vladimir Zainetdinov. Partaking in the events are heads of the military agencies of Belarus, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Russia, Tajikistan, representatives of the CSTO Secretariat and Joint Headquarters, the Foreign Ministry of Russia and CSTO Secretary General Nikolai Bordyuzha who is expected to report on the situation of the Organization’s zone and relevant issues of military cooperation.
      The participants of the meeting discuss the documents related to the plan of consultations between the CSTO member states on foreign policy, security and defense and the CSTO Collective Forces rapid deployment plan. The Defense Ministers Council will consider a list of companies which specialization is appropriate to preserve in the interests of the military and economic cooperation in the CSTO.