CSTO leaders ink declaration, several documents in Minsk

At a summit meeting in Minsk, the leaders of the countries of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) have signed documents aimed at improving the work of the organization and a joint declaration, Report informs referring to TASS.

The summit participants signed, among other things, Council decisions “On measures to develop CSTO crisis response system”, “On the regulations on the CSTO joint press center”, “On the Chief of the CSTO Joint Staff”, “On the establishment of the medal ‘Together for Peace’,” etc.

Five of the six member countries of the organization took part in the meeting of the CSTO Council in Minsk: the presidents of Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan didn’t attend the summit.