June 10, 2009 - 16:26 AMT
Armenia passes CSTO presidency to Belarus
The sitting of the foreign ministers' council of Collective Security Treaty Organization CSTO will be held in Moscow on June 14. Around 20 questions are on the agenda of the sitting. Foreign ministers will discuss issues of interrelations of CSTO with other international agencies, including UN, the plan of joint actions aiming at stabilizing the situation in Afganistan and withstanding threats from Afganistan.

Ministers will discuss the creation of Collective rapid reaction forces (CRRF), examine the legal base to form CRRF, as well as the draft agreement about basic principles of establishing a system of concealed governance of forces and means of CSTO.

Under the organization's rules of procedure, Armenian and Belarusian Foreign Ministers Eduard Nalbandyan and Sergey Martinov will assume the chairmanship of CSTO Foreign Ministers' Council.