On July 3, Minsk hosted celebrations dedicated to the Independence Day of the Republic of Belarus, in which the CSTO Secretary General Stanislav Zas took part. On July 2, he attended a solemn meeting dedicated to this holiday with the participation of the President of the Republic of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko. On July 3 he laid flowers at the Victory Monument.
Also the celebrations were attended by the Chairman of the CIS Executive Committee Sergey Lebedev, the State Secretary of the Union State of the Republic of Belarus and Russia Grigory Rapota and the Chairman of the Board of the Eurasian Economic Commission Mikhail Myasnikovich..
The ceremonies were attended by the ambassadors of the CSTO member states.
Stanislav Zas also held talks with the heads of power structures of the Republic of Belarus on issues of interaction in the CSTO format.
The Independence Day of the Republic of Belarus (the Republic Day) is the main holiday of Belarusian statehood. It is celebrated annually on July 3 in honor of the liberation of the capital of the Republic of Belarus Minsk from Nazi invaders in 1944.
The decision to celebrate the Independence Day on July 3 was made during a republican referendum in 1996.
On the Independence Day, the Days of several Belarusian cities are also celebrated.
The draft statements on combating the Nazism glorification and stabilizing the situation in the Middle East and the document on the establishment of a Working group to the CMD in the area of electronic warfare
16.07.2019
On July 16, this year, a meeting of the Permanent Council of the Collective Security Treaty Organization was held under the chairmanship of Aman Mambetseitov, Permanent and Plenipotentiary Representative of the Kyrgyz Republic.
The Permanent Council reviewed the draft Statement of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the CSTO member states on efforts to stabilize the situation in the Middle East and North Africa and the draft Joint Statement of the Collective Security Treaty Organization member states when adopting the draft resolution of the Third Committee of the 74th UN General Assembly session on the fight against the Nazism glorification, neo-Nazism and other practices that contribute to the escalation of modern forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance.
A draft Decision of the Council of Ministers of Defense of the Organization was also considered. This draft Decision provides the creation of a Working Group on electronic warfare within the CMD CSTO . The purpose of developing the document is to consolidate efforts to realize the potential of the military administration organs, specialized educational and methodological, research organizations, industrial enterprises, other state and public organizations of the CSTO member states on electronic warfare issue. The relevance of this issue is due to the experience of the recent armed conflicts, characterized by the massive use of radio electronic means and means of radio electronic attack, including taking into account the peculiarities of the use of forces and means of radio electronic warfare in the Syrian Arab Republic.
It was decided to send the reviewed documents to the domestic approval.
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