MINSK. May 25 (Interfax) - Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu has arrived in Minsk to attend a meeting of the Council of Defense Ministers of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) on Thursday, which will address regional challenges and threats, the Russian Defense Ministry said.
"At their meeting, the defense ministers will discuss challenges and threats to military security in the collective security regions, steps to update the crisis response system within the organization and other issues of mutual interest," the ministry said.
The defense ministers of the CSTO member countries, the organization's secretary general and the chief of the CSTO Joint Staff are to take part at the meeting.
The CSTO consists of Russia, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan.