CSTO leaders will discuss election of a new secretary general of the organization during a closed-door narrow-format meeting, Russian presidential aide Yuri Ushakov said.

Key problems of the international and regional security as well as interaction between the member states will be discussed, he added.

Earlier Kazakhstan’s Foreign Ministry said the meeting of the CSTO leaders will take place on November 8. Yuri Khachaturov was relieved of his position as a secretary general.