MOSCOW, 4 September (BelTA) – Documents on the military component of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) were signed during a joint meeting of the defense ministers of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, the Commonwealth of Independent States, and the Collective Security Treaty Organization member states in Moscow on 4 September, BelTA has learned.
Chief of the CSTO Joint Staff, Colonel-General Anatoly Sidorov stated that a plan on the joint training of command bodies, troops, and assets of the CSTO collective security system in 2021 had been authorized. The most important events specified by the plan include a management decision simulation for the CSTO Secretariat, the CSTO Joint Staff, and operations groups of interested ministries and government agencies of the CSTO member states, the exercise Poisk 2021 [Search] for reconnaissance forces, the logistic support exercise Eshelon 2021 [Echelon], the Vzaimodeistviye 2021 [Interaction] exercise for the CSTO collective rapid response forces, and the Nerushimoye Bratstvo 2021 [Unbreakable Brotherhood] exercise for the CSTO peacemaking forces.
Anatoly Sidorov also said that the defense ministers of the CSTO member states had decided to set up a working group on radio warfare under the CSTO Defense Ministers Council. The decision was prompted by the latest armed conflicts, during which radio warfare solutions were widely used. Peculiarities of radio warfare in Syria were mentioned.
The initiative to organize the joint meeting of the defense ministers of the SCO, CIS, and CSTO member states had been put forward by Russia, which presides over the Collective Security Treaty Organization in 2020.
