MINSK. July 25 (Interfax) - Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko and Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) Secretary General Nikolai Bordyuzha will discuss the agenda of the CSTO informal summit due in Astana on August 12.
"The CSTO will hold an informal summit on August 12," Lukashenko said at the Monday meeting with Bordyuzha in Minsk.
He noted that Belarus was chairing the organization and proposed "to discuss the current situation and questions that might arise."
"There are many serious questions related to current international events. The military-political bloc must coordinate or even plan its actions," Lukashenko said.
"We cannot deny that the Islamic world is turbulent and complications are possible in our [CSTO] Islamic countries - Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, which has plenty of problems, and Kazakhstan, which is heating up," he said.
"There are other questions in joint activity," Lukashenko said, referring to cooperation in the defense sector and the economy.
He recalled that Bordyuzha had recently visited Armenia and Tajikistan and asked the CSTO secretary general to tell him about the situation in those countries. He also said that the problems to be discussed at the Astana summit might be viewed through the prism of the aforesaid states.
He also offered Bordyuzha to discuss other issues of interest.
Bordyuzha thanked Lukashenko for the meeting and noted that his visits to Minsk were regular.
He said he would tell Lukashenko about the implementation of the decisions made at the meetings of CSTO ministers and security council secretaries this year, the situation within the CSTO zone of responsibility and his visits to Armenia, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan.