On June 10, a meeting of Council of Foreign Ministers of CSTO was held in Yerevan under the chairmanship of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Armenia Ararat Mirzoyan.

The agenda of the meeting included issues related to international and regional security, improving the CSTO crisis response mechanisms, as well as the implementation of individual decisions of the CSTO Collective Security Council.

At the expanded meeting, Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan noted that 30 years ago the CSTO member states made a historic decision to combine efforts aimed at ensuring peace and security, which, in the end, led to the creation of the Collective Security Treaty Organization two decades ago.

Minister Mirzoyan stated that by joint efforts it was possible to provide a reliable basis for countering challenges and threats, creating and further developing an effective defense system aimed at comprehensively meeting the expectations and aspirations of the organization’s member states.

Noting that the CSTO is gaining an increasingly important role in ensuring the security of the Eurasian region, the Armenian Foreign Minister added that it is obvious that the role of the CSTO as a security donor will gradually grow.