Meeting of PA CSTO Council Held Via Video-Conferencing

15 June 2020

Meeting of PA CSTO Council Held Via Video-Conferencing

The session of the Council of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Collective Security Treaty Organization was held via video-conferencing and considered the relevant issues of ensuring international, collective and national security during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Chairman of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, Speaker of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation Vyacheslav Volodin focused on the priority issues for the Russian Federation during its presidency in the CSTO in 2020.

CSTO Secretary General Stanislav Zas reported on the 2019 November session of the CSTO Collective Security Council, the situation within the responsibility of the organization, measures to prevent challenges and threats to collective security and ratification of international treaties, concluded within the CSTO.

Chair of the PA CSTO Standing Committee on Defense and Security, Member of the Committee of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation on Security and Corruption Control Anatolii Vybornyi, Chair of the PA CSTO Standing Committee on Social, Economic and Legal Issues, Deputy Chair of the Standing Commission of the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus on National Security Igor Lavrinenko and Chair of the PA CSTO Standing Committee on Political Issues and International Cooperation, Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia Alen Simonyan reported on the implementation of the PA CSTO Program of Activities on Convergence and Harmonization of National Legislations of the CSTO Member Nations for 2016–2020 and the draft of the similar Program for 2021–2025.

The PA CSTO Council adopted without discussion the Decision on Coordination of Actions of Parliamentary Delegations of CSTO Member Nations at the regular winter session of the PA OSCE (20-21 February 2020, Vienna).

Upon the proposition of the PA CSTO Executive Secretary Sergey Pospelov, Deputy Chair of the Standing Commission of the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus on National Security Igor Lavrinenko was approved to the position of the Chair of the PA CSTO Standing Committee on Social, Economic and Legal Issues.

The next 13th plenary session of the PA CSTO is expected to be held in Russian at the end of 2020.

Speaker of the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia Ararat Mirzoyan, Deputy Speaker of the Council of the Republic of the National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus Anatoliy Isachenko, Speaker of the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus Vladimir Andreichenko, Speaker of the Majilis of the Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan Nurlan Nigmatulin, Speaker of the Jogorku Kenesh of the Kyrgyz Republic Dastanbek Dzhumabekov, Deputy Speaker of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation Yury Vorobyov, Chairman of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, Speaker of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation Vyacheslav Volodin, Speaker of the Majlisi namoyandagon of the Majlisi Oli of the Republic of Tajikistan Mahmadtoir Zoir Zokirzoda, Observers at the PA CSTO – Speaker of the Wolesi Jirga of the National Assembly of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan Mir Rahman Rahmani  and Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia Veroljub Arsic, as well as the representatives of the Secretariats of the CSTO and PA CSTO.

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