On 13 November 2023, the XVI meeting of the Council of the Collective Security Treaty Organization's Consultative Coordination Centre for Responding to Computer Incidents (CSTO CCC) was held in Moscow, with the participation of leading experts and representatives of the national authorized bodies for Responding to Computer Incidents of the CSTO member states.
A meeting of the CSTO Collective Security Council was held in Minsk on 23 November.
The heads of states have discussed in detail current problems of international and regional security and the main results of the activities of the CSTO during the inter-sessional period.
A meeting of the heads of the Collective Security Treaty Organization member states under the chairmanship of the President of the Republic of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko has begun in Minsk in the narrow format.
On 22 November 2023, in Minsk, a joint meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers, the Council of Defense Ministers and the Committee of Secretaries of the Security Councils of the CSTO was held. Representatives of the Republic of Armenia did not take part in the meeting.
In accordance with the Action Plan for the implementation of the decisions of the November 20-22 session of the CSTO CSC and the fulfilment of the priority areas of the Organization’s activities, two documents relevant to the stabilization of the situation in the South Caucasus have been developed so far under the chairmanship of the Republic of Belarus.
The CSTO Secretariat sent to the CSTO Collective Security Council members a draft CSC decision on the completion of the peacekeeping operation in the Republic of Kazakhstan
The Armenian side has notified the CSTO Secretariat that the Chairman of the CSTO Collective Security Council, the Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan had received an Appeal from the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev on the completion of the CSTO peacekeeping mission in the Republic of Kazakhstan from 13 January 2022.
The CSTO Secretariat prepared a draft Decision of the Collective Security Council of the Organization and sent it to the heads of the CSTO member States for approval.
The order of withdrawal of the CSTO Collective Peacekeeping Forces will be approved by the CSTO Defense Ministers Council, which will hold an extraordinary meeting on January 13, this year, via videoconferencing.
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