CSTO Heads of State Summit kicked off in Minsk
On November 23rd, a session of the Collective Security Council of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO) began at Minsk’s Palace of Independence, under the chairmanship of the President of Belarus, Aleksandr Lukashenko
The CSTO heads of state, first in a narrow format and then at a plenary meeting, will discuss problems of international and regional security, sum up the main results of the CSTO’s activities in the intersessional period and determine immediate tasks. As a result, a number of documents will be adopted aimed at ensuring the interests of collective security, as well as further improvement and development of the CSTO.
The CSTO currently unites Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Tajikistan. In 2023, Belarus presides over the organisation.
The priority directions of the Belarusian chairmanship are the resolution of crisis situations and the prevention of further destabilisation within the framework of the CSTO responsibility, the efficient positioning of the military-political bloc in the external contour, increasing the effectiveness of the components of the CSTO Collective Forces, strengthening military-technical co-operation between member states and building up the CSTO institutional potential in the information and analytical sphere.
