MOSCOW. Nov 30 (Interfax-AVN) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, as chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), will attend the first CSTO-NATO meeting in Brussels next week, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov said on Wednesday.
The CSTO, whose members are Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, and Tajikistan, "has long expressed interest in the organization of interaction with NATO in countering real threats and challenges," Ivanov told reporters in the Kremlin.
He said he was referring to "threats that both the CSTO and NATO come up against."
"It is, for example, the drug trafficking problem," he said. The organization must work together, Ivanov said, adding, "single-handed we won't have any luck by definition".