Minsk to Host CSTO Defence Ministers’ Council Meeting on 13 June

A meeting of the CSTO Defence Ministers’ Council will be held in Minsk on 13 June under the chairmanship of Belarusian Defence Minister Lt. Gen. Andrei Ravkov. The meeting will be attended by CSTO Secretary General Yuri Khachaturov, defence ministers of the CSTO member states, as well as Chief of the CSTO Joint Staff Col. Gen. Anatoly Sidorov.

The participants will discuss the plan of consultations between representatives of the CSTO member states on foreign policy, security and defence for the second half of 2017/first half of 2018 and the CSTO training plan for 2018, as well as consider the issues related to training military personnel for the CSTO member states in various specialities.

The decisions taken at the meeting will be aimed at developing the CSTO military component.