MOSCOW, 12 May (BelTA) – CSTO Press Secretary Vladimir Zainetdinov has revealed details of the forthcoming summit of the heads of state, BelTA has learned.
According to the source, the heads of state of the Collective Security Treaty Organization member states will meet in Moscow on 16 May. Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko, Armenia Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, Kazakhstan President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, Kyrgyzstan President Sadyr Japarov, President of Russia Vladimir Putin, and Tajikistan President Emomali Rahmon will take part in the meeting. The meeting will be dedicated to the 30th anniversary since the Collective Security Treaty was signed and to the 20th anniversary since the Collective Security Treaty Organization was established. CSTO Secretary General Stanislav Zas will also take part in the meeting.
Members of the CSTO Collective Security Council are expected to discuss the situation in the organization's responsibility area, prospects of its development, and will pass a statement dedicated to the Collective Security Treaty Organization's jubilee.
Armenia presides over the Collective Security Treaty Organization in 2022.
The Collective Security Treaty was signed in Tashkent, Uzbekistan on 15 May 1992. At a session in Moscow on 14 May 2002 the Collective Security Council decided to convert mechanisms and structures of cooperation of the states parties to the Collective Security Treaty into an international regional organization – the Collective Security Treaty Organization. The CSTO Charter came into force on 18 September 2003. The Collective Security Treaty Organization includes Belarus, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, and Tajikistan.
