DUSHANBE, June 5, 2009, Asia-Plus — A session of the Committee of the Security Council Secretaries of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) is opening in Belarus capital Minsk today, according to the CSTO Secretariat press service.
Some twenty issues have been tabled to the session’s agenda.
The CSTO security council secretaries are discussing trends of development of military and political situation within the CSTO area and neighboring countries as well as measures to address arising challenges and threats to the collective security. The session participants are also summing up the outcomes of special operations, dubbed Kanal (Channel, Nelegal (Illegal immigrant) and PROXI (operation to counter cyber crimes).
The plenary session will consider a package of bills for formation and development of the CSTO rapid-reaction forces.
Members of the CSTO Collective Security Council (CSC) will also consider and coordinate documents aimed at creation of an efficient system of collective address to new challenges and threats. Among them are draft main directions of actions of the CSTO member nations on formation of the collective emergency response system for the period till 2012, the plan of actions of the CSTO states on formation of the collective system of countering illegal migration of citizens of third countries for same period, the draft list organizations recognized as terrorist and extremist in the CSTO states, as well as the draft plan of joint actions to support stabilizing the situation in Afghanistan and addressing challenges and threats emanating from Afghanistan.
The CSTO security council secretaries are also supposed to consider priorities of activity of the Organization in the second half-year of 2009, the plan of consultations of representatives of the CSTO member nations on the issues of foreign policy, security and defense in the second half of this year and other documents related to improvement of the military component of the Organization, its cooperation with other regional and international organizations as well as organizing foundations of activities of the CSTO working institutions.
The Collective Security Council (CSC) is the CSTO supreme managing body set up by heads of state of the CSTO countries. Between the CSC sessions all the coordination and implementation matters are supervised by the Permanent Council which consists of plenipotentiaries of the member states of the CSTO.
