The improvement of the CSTO crisis response system and joint measures to assist Armenia will be discussed at a session of the Collective Security Council (CSC) of the Collective Security Treaty Organization to be held in Yerevan on November 23.
Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan, President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, President of the Kyrgyz Republic Sadyr Japarov, Russian President Vladimir Putin and President of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon are expected to take part in the event, according to the press service of the organization. CSTO Secretary General Stanislav Zas will participate in the meeting.
"Members of the CSC will discuss topical problems of international and regional security and the main results of the Collective Security Treaty Organization during the intersessional period. One of the most important issues will be the improvement of the CSTO crisis response system and discussion of joint measures to provide assistance to the Republic of Armenia.
A Collective Security Council Declaration is expected to be adopted during the CSC session.
Considering Belarus taking over the presidency in the CSTO in 2022-2023, President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko will present the priorities of the country to be realized next year.
The agenda of the CSTO meeting includes a number of documents to be signed, which relate to equipping the peacekeeping forces with modern weapons, military and special equipment, joint formation of radiation, chemical and biological protection and medical support of the CSTO, as well as giving the complex of preventive measures "Mercenary" the status of a regional anti-terrorist operation. The CSTO budget for 2023 will be reviewed.
The Collective Security Council will consider the issue of the Secretary General of the Collective Security Treaty Organization in connection with the forthcoming rotation on January 1, 2023.
A joint meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers, the Council of Defense Ministers and the Committee of Secretaries of Security Councils will be held prior to the CSC to discuss the military and political situation in the CSTO collective security regions, the Agenda of the upcoming session of the CSC.
A number of important political statements are planned to be adopted at the sessions of the Council of Ministers, the Council of Ministers of Defense, and the Committee of Secretaries of Security Councils, including statements by the ministers of foreign affairs of the CSTO member States on strengthening the international and regional security architecture and arms control, disarmament and non-proliferation, and also a statement by the secretaries of security councils condemning attempts to glorify Nazism, neo-Nazism, extremism, chauvinism and all forms of xenophobia. There are plans to adopt a decision of the Committee of Secretaries of Security Councils of the Collective Security Treaty Organization "On the composition of the Coordinating Council of authorized bodies of Collective Security Treaty Organization member States on biological security".
