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Dushanbe to host CSTO FM meeting

Xinhua, March 17, 2015 Adjust font size:

A session of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) will take place here on April 1-2, Tajikistan's Foreign Ministry announced Tuesday.

According to the ministry, foreign ministers of the CSTO members will mull a statement on marking the 70th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945, and prepare other documents.

The meeting will be chaired by Tajik Foreign Minister Sirojiddin Aslov, whose country currently chairs the six-member bloc.

Founded in May 1992 under the framework of the Commonwealth of Independent States, the Russia-led CSTO is a security group that also comprises Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. Endi