Secretaries of CSTO Security Councils to meet in Minsk Wed.

MINSK, June 1 (Itar-Tass) - A regular session of the Committee of
Secretaries of the Security Councils (CSSC) of the Collective Security
Treaty Organization (CSTO) is to be held here on Wednesday under the
chairmanship of Leonid Maltsev, State Secretary of the Security Council of
Belarus.
Nikolai Bordyuzha, Secretary-General of the CSTO, will make a report
at the session on the state of cooperation and foreign policy coordination
of CSTO member-countries with international and regional organizations.
Participants in the sessio are to consider matters concerning the most
important problems in the international situation and its influence on the
ensurance of security of the CSTO member-countries; proposals about the
establishment of an institution of partnership, prospects for organizing
peacekeeping activities in a CSTO-UN format.
CSTO Security Councils' Secretaries are also to discuss matters aimed
at coordinating cooperation in efforts to counteract present-day
challenges and threats, Vladimir Zainetdinov, press secretary of the CSTO
Secretariat, has told Itar-Tass.
"The delegations of Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia,
Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan will take part in the XXI session of the CSSC,"
Zainetdinov said. The Commitee will examine draft decisions of the
Collective Security Council of the CSTO on a basic military range for the
training of rescue units; a special document on the composition and
location of CSTO countries' peacekeeping contingents, as well as a draft
Plan for the second half of 2011 and the first half of 2012 for
consultations among representatives of CSTO countries on foreign policy,
security and defence matters.
In the estimate of the press secretary, "The session will
traditionally focus on a consultative and frank dialogue on the most acute
secutity problems within the CSTO's zone of responsibility, the
present-day situation in the world and in individual regions".
The CSTO is a military and political union established by the
Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) member-countries on the strength
of the Collective Security Treaty, signed in May 1992. The goal of the
CSTO is to repulse threats from the outside, and protect the terriotrial
integrity and sovereignty of the member-countries of the Organization.