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6:12 CAT | 23 Oct 2018
CSTO forces drills. Photo: Nozim Kalandarov/TASS
Chiefs of General Staff from member-states of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO), a post-Soviet security bloc, will hold a meeting in Kazakhstan’s Almaty on October 26, the organisation said on its website.
“The CSTO military committee will discuss issues of developing military cooperation at its meeting in Almaty on October 26. During the meeting the sides plan to discuss the situation in the collective security regions and measures aimed at enhancing collective security of the CSTO member-states,” the statement said.
The discussion will focus on air defence issues in the Central Asian Region.
According to the organisation’s website, the meeting will be chaired by Kazakhstan’s Deputy Defence Minister and Chief of General Staff Murat Maykeev.
The agreement on setting up the Collective Security Treaty Organisation was signed in 1992. As of now, security bloc brings together Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Tajikistan.
Source: TASS
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