A crisis response center of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) will be established on the basis of Russia’s Defense Ministry, a source in the country’s Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday, September 15, according to TASS.

Plans on creating the center were announced at the December 2014 session of the organization’s decision-making body, the Collective Security Council, the source added.

The member-states have also stepped up efforts on coordination of the collective security strategy for up to 2025, which envisages a range of meetings and consultations of experts, he said.

A spokesperson for the Russia-led military alliance of former Soviet states said in late June the crisis response center will help member states deal with major security threats.

He said that the new center would be based at an information technology complex for software and hardware development in one of the Russian Defense Ministry’s military towns near Moscow.

The source added that peacekeeping exercises Indestructible Brotherhood-2015 will be held on September 30-Octover 4 in Armenia to improve the operational and combat training of forces and means of the collective security system.

The CSTO, established in 1992, is headquartered in Moscow and includes Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Tajikistan. In 2002, the six post-Soviet states agreed to create the CSTO as a military alliance.