Chiefs of Staff Committee Session

On 10 April, Moscow will host a regular session of the Committee of the Chiefs of the General Staffs of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) member states.

Pyotr Tikhonovsky, Chief of the General Staff, First Deputy Defence Minister of Belarus, will represent Belarus at the event.

The participants are going to discuss a number of issues dedicated to the Committee’s activities: development of a single communications system between the armed forces of CIS member states, a list of joint activities in 2014, cooperation in topogeodetic and navigation support, as well as well as development of a common interarchival reference book.

The same day, the CSTO Military Committee will conduct a meeting. The participants will discuss the issues dedicated to the next session of the CSTO Defence Ministers’ Council, as well as preparation for the Vzaimodeistviye 2013 joint exercise of the CSTO Rapid Reaction Forces and the Nerushimoye Bratstvo 2013 joint exercise of the CSTO peacekeeping forces.