MINSK, 15 June (BelTA) – Revised principles of military and technical cooperation of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) member states are supposed to be presented before the heads of state in autumn, BelTA learned from State Secretary of Belarus' Security Council Stanislav Zas after the session of the CSTO Committee of Secretaries of Security Councils in Minsk on 15 June.
Military and technical cooperation was one of the items on the session's agenda. Stanislav Zas said: “I think we will present some changes in principles of CSTO military and technical cooperation before the heads of state during the Collective Security Council session in autumn.”
In his words, the changes are designed to improve the level of military and technical cooperation.
Participants of the session discussed more than ten items on the agenda. Some of them were related to the routine operation of the Collective Security Treaty Organization. Participants of the session also discussed matters concerning further enhancement and development of the organization. In particular, information security in the CSTO member states was discussed. The need to continue working on the CSTO agreement on cooperation in information security was stressed.
Apart from that, the plan of actions for H2 2017 – H1 2018 was discussed and signed. Stanislav Zas pointed out that the list of joint actions goes larger all the time and the plans get filled with more concrete content. “It indicates that our organization is getting stronger. We can see growth prospects,” stressed the state secretary of the Security Council of the Republic of Belarus.
Summing up the results, Stanislav Zas said that the CSTO faces many tasks and the member states demonstrate understanding and unity in evaluations and approaches to the most significant items on the agenda.
Delegations from Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, and representatives of the CSTO Secretariat took part in the session of the CSTO Committee of Secretaries of Security Councils in Minsk on 15 June. The committee is the CSTO's advisory and executive body in charge of coordinating interaction of the CSTO member states in matters of their national security.
