Bishkek hosts Committee of Secretaries of CSTO Security Council meeting

Bishkek, June 27, 2019. /Kabar/. The Committee of Secretaries of Security Councils of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) member states meeting is taking place in Bishkek. The meeting includes discussion additional measures to counter international terrorism and extremism in the CSTO format.
The meeting began with a co-photography and a handshake ceremony. Then the heads of the delegation went to the meeting room for a narrow format meeting.
The meeting is held under the chairmanship of Secretary of the Security Council of the Kyrgyz Republic Damir Sagynbayev.
Secretaries of the Security Councils of CSTO member states and Acting Secretary General of the Organization Valery Semerikov are taking part in the meeting.
The Committee members will discuss the challenges and threats to collective security in the current circumstances, as well as additional measures to counter international terrorism and extremism in the CSTO format, which are being implemented in accordance with the decision of the CSTO Collective Security Council.
It is planned to consider and approve a number of draft decisions of the CSTO Collective Security Council, including "On the List of additional measures aimed at reducing tensions in the Tajik-Afghan border region", "On the Plan of collective actions of the CSTO Member States on the implementation of the United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy for 2019-2021".
Signing of the Plan of joint training of management bodies and formations of forces and means of the CSTO Collective Security System for 2020, the Plan of consultations of representatives of the CSTO member states on foreign policy, security and defense issues for the second half of 2019 - the first half of 2020 are expected, as well as the adoption of the Committee of Secretaries of CSTO Security Council decision "On the Regulations of information interaction of the CSTO Crisis Response Centre".
In total, the draft agenda of the CSTO Committee includes 8 issues related to almost all areas of the Organization's activities.
The Collective Security Treaty (STO) was signed on 15 May 1992 in Tashkent. On May 14, 2002 at its session in Moscow the Collective Security Council decided to transform the mechanisms and structures of cooperation of the Treaty member-states into an international regional organization - the Collective Security Treaty Organization with a corresponding status. The CSTO Charter came into force on Sept. 18, 2003.
The Organization’s members are Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Tajikistan.