Next meeting of SCTO PA will be held in Yerevan

Bishkek, May 20, 2019. / Kabar /. The visiting meeting of the Council of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization of the Collective Security Treaty (CSTO PA) was held in Bishkek.
At a meeting of the Council of the CSTO PA Speaker of the Kyrgyz Parliament Dastanbek Dzhumabekov outlined the priorities of the Kyrgyz Republic's chairmanship in the Collective Security Treaty Organization in 2019.
Vyacheslav Volodin, the Chairman of the CSTO PA, Chairman of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, noted the positive result of the practice of the visiting session of the CSTO PA Council.
Executive Secretary of the CSTO PA, Peter Ryabukhin, presented information on the work plans of the CSTO PA for 2019.
The members of the Council of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Collective Security Treaty Organization approved Vice Speaker of the Armenian Parliament Alain Simonyan as Chairman of the CSTO PA Standing Committee on Political Affairs and International Cooperation and State Duma Deputy Dmitry Novikov as Deputy Chairman of the CSTO PA Standing Committee on Political Affairs and International Cooperation.
At the meeting of the Council of the CSTO PA, the heads of the delegations of the countries participating in the CSTO PA decided to hold the next meeting of the Council and the XII plenary meeting of the CSTO PA in Yerevan (Armenia) in the autumn of 2019.
The Bishkek meeting was attended by the delegations of the CSTO PA member countries: Russia, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Belarus, Armenia. Representatives of the Republic of Serbia and the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan attended as observers.