DUSHANBE, October 13, 2009, Asia-Plus  -- The seventh session of the Interstate Commission for Military and Economic Cooperation of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) will be held in Dushanbe on October 16.

The session, presided over by Russian Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade, Ivan Materov, will discuss measures to stimulate military-economic cooperation, press release issued by the CSTO Secretariat said.

The session will consider draft proposals on development of the military-economic cooperation program for the period till 2015, draft agreement on cooperation in elaborating, producing, exploiting, modernizing and utilizing military products.

Besides, the session participants will also consider agreements on the procedure of providing the CSTO states with Russian technical standard-legal acts and cooperation on military traffic management and carriage of special cargos and military products, as well as regulations on interstate system of cataloging items of military logistics for armed forces of the CSTO member nations, press release said.

The session in Dushanbe will also discuss the concept and regulations on advertising and exhibition activities of the CSTO states in the field of the military-economic cooperation.

The CSTO Interstate Commission for Military and Economic Cooperation was founded in line with the decision of the CSTO Collective Security Council on June 23, 2005.  The major goals of the commission are the development of recommendations to secure all-round military and economic cooperation between the CSTO member nations, development and implementation of long-term programs on military and economic cooperation, preparation of proposals on joint R&D activity in the military area and others.