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Astana to host extraordinary meeting of CSTO Council of Foreign Ministers

Kazakhstan Materials 29 March 2012 16:03 (UTC +04:00)
Kazakh city of Astana will host the extraordinary meeting of Collective Security Treaty Organization's Council of Foreign Ministers on April 6
Astana to host extraordinary meeting of CSTO Council of Foreign Ministers

Azerbaijan, Baku, March 29 /Trend E. Kosolapova/

Kazakh city of Astana will host the extraordinary meeting of Collective Security Treaty Organization's Council of Foreign Ministers on April 6, the organization reported. The meeting will be held under chairmanship of Kazakh Foreign Minister Yerzhan Kazykhanov.

"The foreign ministers of the CSTO member states will discuss the draft agenda of the jubilee session of the Collective Security Council, which will be dedicated to the 20th anniversary of signing Collective Security Treaty and the 10th anniversary of the Collective Security Treaty Organization," CSTO said.

The Collective Security Treaty Organization is an intergovernmental military alliance of Post-soviet countries. It was created in 1992. CSTO members are Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.

The Foreign Ministers will discuss fundamental positions of CSTO member states on important global and regional security issues, collective measures to resolve them and strengthening of allied solidarity in case of external threats.

CSTO member-countries will also discuss approaches to the issue of the U.S. missile defense disposal in Europe.

The meeting will be attended by CSTO Secretary General Nikolai Bordyuzha, who will report on the cooperation status and foreign policy objectives coordination of the organization's member states.

Moreover, the Foreign Ministries will discuss interaction between the permanent representatives of CSTO members in international organizations and planning signing of the Memorandum of Understanding between the CSTO Secretariat and the UN Operations Department on peace-keeping.

CSTO member-countries will also discuss countering of the growing threats and challenges from Afghanistan in connection with the transfer of responsibility for the security to the country's security forces. Moreover, it is expected to assess the situation in connection with the worsening situation in the Middle East, Western Asia and North Africa (the events in Syria, the Iranian nuclear program, the situation in Pakistan, etc.)

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