Dushanbe hosts CSTO Collective Security Council session

16 сентября 2015

Yesterday Tajikistan’s Dushanbe hosted a CSTO Collective Security Council session featuring the Belarusian President. During a narrow format meeting the leaders of Belarus, Russia, Kazakhstan, Armenia, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan agreed that the Collective Security Treaty Organisation should be optimised, considered the most important directions of CSTO development and adjusted plans for the future.

An expanded meeting focused on about 15 issues. According to Alexander Lukashenko stressed, the Collective Security Treaty Organisation requires strengthening military power and crisis response mechanisms.

The summit resulted in the signing of a number of documents and the adoption of a joint statement in which the CSTO member states’ leaders stated the inadmissibility of any sanctions in circumvention of the UN, advocated the compliance with the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and welcomed recent agreements on settling the situation around Iran’s nuclear programme.