MOSCOW. Nov 29 (Interfax-AVN) - Chiefs of General Staffs of Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) member countries have decided to set up the CSTO Military Committee and to appoint the CSTO General Staff Chief for the period of three years. This will be full-time work.
"The decisions were made at a working conference of chiefs of general staffs of CSTO member countries," CSTO press secretary Vladimir Zainetdinov told Interfax-AVN on Thursday.
"The chiefs of general staffs pronounced expedient the establishment of the CSTO General Staff as a supplementary body of the Council of Defense Ministers. They also said it would be expedient to appoint the CSTO General Staff chief for full-time work for three years on rotation principles," he said.
The conference "basically approved mid-term development of CSTO military cooperation and some other issues pertaining to the CSTO military component, which would be raised at the next meetings of statutory bodies," Zainetdinov said.
He recalled that the Collective Security Council session and the joint meeting of defense and foreign ministers and security council secretaries were due in Moscow on December 19.