CSTO’s foreign ministers to discuss military issues – FM spokesman

MOSCOW. Oct 1 (Interfax-AVN) - The CSTO's foreign ministers will discuss military-technical aid to the Collective Security Treaty Organization's member-states in Dushanbe on October 4.

The meeting will be attended by the foreign ministers of Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Mikhail Kamynin said.

"The foreign ministers will address issues of military development," Kamynin said in an interview posted on the Russian Foreign Ministry's website on Monday.

"A discussion of a plan to provide military-technical aid to CSTO member-states when under the threat of aggression or if attacked is expected to strengthen the system of collective security in the military-political sphere," the diplomat said.

The foreign ministers are to discuss ways to perfect the laws regulating military-economic cooperation, the rules regulating the use of military-purpose products, as well as shipments of special equipment, under relaxed arrangements, to law enforcement agencies and special services," he said.