Uzbekistan, Tashkent, Dec.8 /Trend D.Azizov /
President of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov will attend a session of the Collective Security Council of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) and a regular meeting of the CIS Council of Heads of States on Dec.10 2010 in Moscow.
The CSTO is a military-political union created by the CIS based on the Collective Security Treaty (CST). The CSTO tasks are protecting the territorial and economic space of the treaty member countries by joint efforts of armies and auxiliary subdivisions from external political and military aggressors, international terrorists, as well as from large scale natural disasters. Now CSTO members are Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.