MOSCOW. April 28 (Interfax-AVN) - Russian President Vladimir Putin, who is currently in Tajikistan, will attend a Collective Security Treaty summit in Dushanbe on Monday.
The Collective Security Treaty's signatory states are Russia, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.
The presidents of the six states will hold narrow-format talks on the key regional and international issues followed by expanded talks on military ties, a Kremlin source has told Interfax.
"The upcoming summit is expected to mark an important stage in establishing an international regional Organization of the Collective Security Treaty," the source said.
The summit is expected to produce more than twenty agreements on the future organization's structure. Agreements to establish its permanent council and joint headquarters are expected to be signed.
Russian deputy presidential chief of staff Sergei Prikhodko has told Interfax that "the formation of this regional organization will raise defense ties between the signatory states to a new level."
"The clear-cut principles of the joint decisions' obligatory implementation are expected to provide a more effective collective response to challenges threatening our countries' security," Prikhodko said.
He pointed out that the new organization will attach priority importance to combating international terrorism and extremism, illegal arms and drug trade, and other types of trans- border organized crime.