The Belarusian minister of foreign affairs said: “This year has turned out to be extremely complicated and tense both for the Collective Security Treaty Organization and its member states and for Belarus' presidency over the organization."
The talks were held ahead of the CSTO summit which is due to be held in the Belarusian capital on 23 November. The agenda of the joint meeting included the military and political situation in the regions of collective security and the work of the organization in the intersessional period, and also priority areas of activity during the upcoming presidency of Kazakhstan in the CSTO.
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As a result of the talks the parties approved and signed about 20 documents on politics and defense as well as the counteraction of modern challenges and threats to security.