The International Forum for Collective Security began in Moscow.
The forum precedes the leaders' meeting. Today there is an open discussion on urgent issues of international and regional security. At the plenary meeting they talked about the unprecedented increase in military spending in the world and the militarization of the West.
The foreign ministers of the CSTO member states called for joint efforts to curb the arms race and limit the stockpiles of nuclear weapons, as well as to develop legal mechanisms and coordinate the work of the integration structures in the Eurasian region.