In accordance with the decision concerning the 2016 CSTO presidency of the Republic of Armenia made by the CSTO collective security council in a 2015 session, another meeting of the council of Ministers of Defense of CSTO member states will take place in Yerevan, on August 16th.

Delegations from the defense administrations of Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan, Russia and Tajikistan, general secretary of the CSTO Nikolay Bordyuzha and chief of the joint general staff of the CSTO, Colonel-General Anatoli Sidorov, are going to participate in the meeting.