CSTO Foreign Ministers? Council to be held in Moscow

The Kazakh delegation will be headed by Foreign Minister Marat Tazhin. The ministers will consider the issues of the CSTO interaction with other international structures, a draft plan of joint actions on promotion of stabilization of the Afghanistan situation and struggle against new challenges and threats coming from this country. Besides, they will discuss the progress of implementation of the CSTO Collective Security Council?s decision on creation of Collective Rapid Reaction Forces as well as a draft agreement on the main principles of code command system and management of means of the CSTO collective security system. Priority directions of the CSTO activity for the second half of 2009-first half of 2010 and a Plan of consultations on the issues of foreign policy, security and defense will be submitted for the ministers? approval. The participants will also adjust a number of documents aimed at creating an efficient system of collective struggle against new threats and challenges.