Tajik capital is hosting the 21st meeting of the Collective Security Treaty (CSTO) Interstate Commission for Military and Economic Cooperation (IMEC) today.
The CSTO press center says that chaired by Denis Manturov, the Deputy Prime Minister of Russia – Minister of Industry and Trade of Russia also Chairman of the IMEC, the meeting is being attend by heads of the national parts of the Commission. The CSTO Secretary-General Imangali Tasmagambetov is also attending the meeting, which will focus on the implementation of the decisions of the 20th meeting of the ICMEC held in Moscow in October last year as well as the results of implementation of the decisions of the statutory bodies of the Organization.
In particular, the meeting participants will discuss the content of further measures on standardization of weapons and military equipment within the CSTO and the development of multilateral cooperation between enterprises and organizations of the defense industry (military-industrial) complexes of the Organization's member states.
On the eve of the beginning of the ICMEC work the meetings of the Coordinating Council for Standardization of Armaments and Military Equipment under the CSTO ICMEC, as well as the meetings of the Coordinating Council under the CSTO ICMEC on issues of mutual protection of rights to the results of intellectual activity, obtained and used during the military and economic cooperation within the CSTO to review and coordinate documents in this part of the work, were reportedly held.
Meanwhile, Denis Manturov, who arrived in Dushanbe yesterday, is also scheduled to hold meeting with high-ranking Tajik state officials.
Created in 1992, the Collective Security Treaty Organization is a Russia-led military alliance grouping the six former Soviet republics of Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Tajikistan.
The CSTO Interstate Commission on Military-Economic Cooperation was established by the decision of the CSTO Collective Security Council of June 23, 2005.
The Commission's tasks include formulating recommendations and adopting decisions within its competence to ensure multilateral military-economic (technical) cooperation in priority areas of cooperation within the CSTO format. These include the development and implementation of long-term programs for military-economic cooperation; development of cooperation in the production of military products; creation of joint ventures for the development, production, modernization, repair and disposal of military products; and joint research and development work on the development and modernization of military products, among others.
