DUSHANBE, May 28, 2009, Asia-Plus  -- The next session of the council of defense ministers of the Collective Security treaty Organization (CSTO) will be held in Moscow on June 3, according to the CSTO Secretariat press service.

Some 20 issues have been tabled to the session’s agenda.  The meeting participants will discuss the pace of implementation of the CSTO Collective Security Council resolution on formation of the CSTO rapid-reaction force and consider legal foundation of formation and use of those forces.

The ministers will also hear report by the chairman of the council of defense ministers on a progress of implementation of the CSTO coalition military construction plan for the period till 2010 and consider draft agreements on the main principles of creation of a system of covered management of forces and means of the collective security system, reserves of tangible assets to provide formation of forces and means in this system, etc.

A draft plan on joint actions of the CSTO member nations to promote stabilization of the situation in Afghanistan and address challenges and threats emanating from Afghanistan as well as a draft plan on consultations on foreign policy, security and defense for the second half-year of 2009 and the first half-year of 2010 are also supposed to be submitted for consideration to the CSTO defense ministers’ session in Moscow.