The decisions adopted at the CSTO Collective Security Council in December 2012 will make it possible to adequately react at all the challenges and threats to the national security of the CSTO member-states, Armenia's Defence Minister Seyran Ohanyan said at the opening ceremony of the political
forum "Political and Security Landmarks for Formation of the CSTO military component", in Yerevan, 26 June.
"The year of 2012 became a period of the constructive and fruitful work in many directions of the CSTO activity which are still relevant today. In particular, heads of the CSTO member-states adopted several key decisions at the December session, which foreshadowed the main landmarks for development of the collective security system. I am absolutely confident this will make it possible to adequately react at all the challenges and threats to the national security of the CSTO member-states", - Ohanyan said.
The Second Strategic Political Forum "Political and Security Landmarks for Formation of CSTO's Military Component" kicked off in Yerevan on June 26. Defense Minister Seyran Ohanyan, Secretary of the NAtional Security Council Arthur Baghdasaryan, CSTO Secretary General Nikolay Bodyuzha welcomed the participants in the event.
The keynote speakers at the forum are Defense Minister Seyran Ohanyan, CSTO Secretary General Nikolay Bodyuzha, and Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Shavarsh Kocharyan. The forum will over on June 27. The event organizers are the Institute of National and International Studies of the Armenian Defense Ministry, CSTO Secretariat, and CSTO Institute autonomous non-commercial organization.