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 CSTO Permanent Council agreed on the Statement of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Collective Security Treaty Organization member states on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of World War II
16.09.2019
On September 16 this year, a meeting of the Permanent Council of the Collective Security Treaty Organization was held. It was haired by the Permanent and Plenipotentiary Representative of the Kyrgyz Republic Aman Mambetseyitov. The CSTO Acting Secretary General Valery Semerikov also took part in the meeting.
The draft Statement of the Foreign Ministers of the Member States of the Collective Security Treaty Organization on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of the Second World War was considered and it was decided to submit the Statement for consideration during the working meeting of the CSTO Foreign Ministers on September 27 this year in New York at the 74th session of the UN General Assembly.
The Permanent Council also agreed on draft decisions of the Collective Security Council of the Collective Security Treaty Organization on the implementation of the CSTO Budget for 2018 and on the basic organization in the field of development of cooperative and integration ties of enterprises and organizations of the military-industrial complexes of the Collective Security Treaty Organization member states. It was decided to submit the draft of these documents for consideration by the CSTO authorized organs.
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