Regular session of the Collective Security Council of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO)

President of Russia Vladimir Putin, President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, President of Kyrgyzstan Sadyr Japarov, President of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon, and CSTO Secretary General Imangali Tasmagambetov attended the restricted format meeting.

The meeting continued in an expanded format, with the participation of delegation members. Attending the meeting on the Russian side were Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, Security Council Secretary Sergei Shoigu, Defence Minister Andrei Belousov, Deputy Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office – Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov, Presidential Aide Yury Ushakov, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Republic of Kazakhstan Alexei Borodavkin and Plenipotentiary Representative of the Russian Federation to the Collective Security Treaty Organisation Viktor Vasilyev.

Secretary-General of the Commonwealth of Independent States Sergei Lebedev and Secretary-General of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Zhang Ming were also invited to take part in the expanded format meeting of the CSTO’s Collective Security Council.

A large package of documents was signed following the summit.

The documents include the Declaration of the Collective Security Council of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation and the Statement of the Collective Security Council of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation on the 80th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945, as well as a decision on a plan of scheduled events to celebrate this anniversary.

The sides also signed decisions of the CSTO’s Collective Security Council on the Targeted Interstate Programme of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation to Reinforce the Tajik-Afghan Border, on Further Strengthening Allied Relations within the Collective Security Treaty Organisation, on the List of Standard Modern and Advanced Weapons Systems, Military and Special-Purpose Equipment for the Collective Rapid Deployment Forces of the Central Asia Collective Security Region, and a number of other documents.