MOSCOW. Nov 22 (Interfax) - A plan for collective actions by the countries of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) to implement the global anti-terrorist strategy of the UN for 2019-2021 is expected to be signed at the session of the CSTO Collective Security Council held in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, on November 28, CSTO press secretary Vladimir Zainetdinov said.
"A plan of connective actions by the CSTO countries to implement the global anti-terrorist strategy of the UN for 2019-2021 is expected to be signed. The plan envisages close interaction on the improvement of the entire system for countering terrorist challenges and threats," Zainetdinov said.
The document "was drafted on the basis of the principled position of the CSTO on the formation of a broad international antiterrorist coalition." The document was approved in the May sessions of the CSTO Council of Foreign Ministers, Council of Defense Ministers, and the Security Council Secretaries Committee in Bishkek and is now submitted to the Collective Security Council," he said.
"The agenda of the CSTO Collective Security Council meeting includes 17 issues," Zainetdinov said.
The Collective Security Council will meet in Bishkek on November 28 and the meeting will be chaired by the Kyrgyz president, he said.
"The Collective Security Council meeting will be attended by Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, Kyrgyz President Sooronbai Jeenbekov, Russian President Vladimir Putin, and Tajik President Emomali Rahmon," Zainetdinov said.
"Some issues, in particular, international and regional security issues and the situation in the areas of responsibility of the CSTO will be discussed by Collective Security Council members without the delegations present. The plenary session of the Collective Security Council will be attended by the foreign ministers, defense ministers, and security council secretaries of the CSTO countries," he said.
A joint meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers, Council of Defense Ministers and security council secretaries of the CSTO, "which will address some 20 issues, a majority of which will be addressed at the Collective Security Council session," is scheduled for November 27, Zainetdinov said.