A meeting of the Council of the CSTO Collective Security Treaty was held in Moscow, in which the Presidents of Russia Vladimir Putin, Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, Kazakhstan Kasem-Jomart Tokayev, Kyrgyzstan Sadir Jafarov, Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon, as well as the Organization's Secretary General Mesa Taalitbek took part. The officer on duty collected the essentials.
Before the meeting, Putin received Masdikov. The Secretary General of the CSTO said that the organization succeeded in implementing last year's action plan, which was approved at the organization's summit last year in Bishkek.
At the council meeting, Putin said that the participants will discuss contemporary security issues of a global and regional nature. New solutions are needed in key areas.
Lukashenko proposed to strengthen the military component of the CSTO. In military conflicts, there is a shift from classic military operations to low-cost asymmetric instruments of influence. We are talking about hacker attacks, creating an army of bots and creating fakes.
Tokayev, Jafarov, Rahmon and Masadikov also put forward their ideas and suggestions. As a result of the meeting, the participants signed several multilateral documents. The issue of denying Armenia voting rights in the CSTO was also raised, as the republic has frozen its participation in the organization and does not pay membership fees.
Putin's press secretary Dmitry Peskov noted that no one knows what Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan's expectations are from the CSTO, nor why the republic is not leaving the organization.
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