MOSCOW. April 9 (Interfax-AVN) - Officials of defense and foreign ministries of the nations signatories to the Collective Security Treaty met in Yerevan on Tuesday to discuss preparations for the May session of the Collective Security Council, a spokesman for the council administration told Interfax-Military News Agency.
Officials from Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Tajikistan are also planning to discuss specification of a regulation on consultative and working control bodies of the council. Among these bodies are the councils of foreign ministers and defense ministers, as well as the committee of the armed forces chiefs-of-staff under the defense ministers council.
Russia is represented at the consultations by First Deputy Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Trubnikov and Lieutenant General Vitaly Romanchenko, first deputy chief of the General Staff main operations department. The event also involves the council's secretary general Valery Nikolyaenko.