MOSCOW. - Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoygu met with the Secretary General of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) Nikolay Bordyuzha in Moscow on Friday.

The interlocutors discussed the military cooperation between the CSTO members, the organization’s press-service reports.

“During the meeting, the preparations for the upcoming session of the CSTO Defense Ministers’ Council in Yerevan on August 16, as well as a number of issues on the further improvement of military cooperation in the organization’s format were discussed,” the CSTO statement reads.  

Russia, Belarus, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan are members of the CSTO.