DUSHANBE, May 23, Asia-Plus -- A meeting on the level of deputy ministers of foreign affairs, defense, and finance as well as deputy security council secretaries from countries making up the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) opens in Moscow today.    

According to information from Tajikistan’s Security Council, Deputy Defense Minister Ramil Nadyrov, Deputy Foreign Minister Saymumin Yatimov and the Security Council’s information department head Abdusamad Samiyev are representing Tajikistan at this meeting.  

The source says participants in the consultations are discussing issues, which are supposed to be submitted for consideration to the CSTO institutional bodies such as Collective Security Council, Council of Foreign Ministers, Council of Defense Ministers, and Security Council Secretaries’ Committee.  The CSTO Collective Security Council will meet in the Belarus capital of Minsk from June 22-23.  

The Collective Security Treaty organization groups Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Tajikistan.