ArmInfo. Anatoly Glaz, spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Belarus, said that the agency did not have information about the possibility of nominating the secretary of the Belarusian Security Council Stanislav Zasya to the post of secretary general of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO): "We have no such information".
Information on the nomination of a representative of the Republic of Belarus to the position of the head of the CSTO was distributed today by the Russian newspaper Kommersant, with reference to its sources.
Recall that the issue of appointing the CSTO Secretary General will be discussed in Astana on November 8 at an appropriate level. At the moment, it is not even known what country the candidate will be from, not that the candidacy itself is, the press secretary of the Belarusian Foreign Ministry told .
On November 8 in Astana, the heads of the CSTO member countries (Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan) will gather for a session of the Collective Security Council. Earlier, the post of CSTO Secretary General was occupied by the representative of Armenia Yuri Khachaturov, however in November he was recalled from the post in connection with the charges against him of usurping power while suppressing mass popular speeches after the presidential elections in 2008.