DUSHANBE, June 11, 2009, Asia-Plus — Foreign Minister Hamrokhon Zarifi will attend a session of the council of foreign ministers of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) member nations that will be held in Moscow on June 14, according to the MFA information department.
The meeting aims to consider expansion of cooperation of the CSTO with other international organizations, including the United Nations, the draft plan of joint actions to support stabilization of the situation in Afghanistan and addressing challenges and threats emanating from Afghanistan as well as review the work on coordination of foreign policy activities of the CSTO states carried out since the previous CSTO foreign ministers’ session.
According to press release issued by the SCTO Secretariat, the ministers are also supposed to discuss the process of implementation of the resolution of the extraordinary CSTO summit on formation of the collective rapid-reaction force as well as the legal foundation of formation and use of the Organization’s rapid-reaction force and draft agreements on the main principles of creation of a system of covered management of forces and means of the collective security system. Priorities of the CSTO activities in the second half-year of 2009 and the first half-year of 2010 as well as the plan of consultations on foreign policy, security and defense for the same period will also be discussed at the session.
The CSTO foreign ministers’ session is also expected to coordinate a package of documents related to creation of an efficient system of collective counteraction to new challenges and threats.
In all, the session will consider some twenty issues, the CSTO Secretariat press release said.
