Promoting Cooperation within CSTO

Two high-level working meetings were held in the Defence Ministry on 17 February 2014. Belarusian Defence Minister Lt. Gen. Yuri Zhadobin met with Secretary General of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO) Nikolai Bordyuzha, and Chief of the General Staff, First Deputy Minister of Defence Maj. Gen. Oleg Belokonev met with Chief of CSTO Joint Staff Lt. Gen. Alexander Studenikin.

Yuri Zhadobin and Nikolai Bordyuzha discussed further military cooperation within CSTO and implementation of the decisions taken during the September session of the CSTO Collective Security Council.

Oleg Belokonev and Alexander Studenikin discussed the results of CSTO activities in 2013, as well as joint operational and combat training events planned for 2014.