Mr Bordyuzha informed the President on preparations for the upcoming CSTO summit in Minsk on June 23.
The main items on the summit’s agenda will be deepening military and political cooperation within the organisation and drawing up measures to combat terrorism, extremism, drugs trafficking and illegal migration.
The summit is also expected to decide to transform the Collective Security Treaty Organisation into an international, multifunctional and universal structure as well as to form collective emergency reaction forces, whose functions will include responding to natural and technological disasters. The collective emergency reaction forces will operate both within the Collective Security Treaty’s area of action and also outside this area – under UN mandate.