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Moscow hosts CSTO Collective Security Council meeting

11 November 2026 16:36 (UTC +04:00)

A meeting of the Collective Security Council of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) has begun in Moscow, APA's Moscow bureau reports.

The meeting is being held at the Kremlin.

Before the meeting, the presidents of the CSTO member states — Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan — posed for a group photo.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, whose country currently holds the CSTO chairmanship, addressed the meeting. He outlined the issues to be discussed during today's session.

The floor was then given to CSTO Secretary-General Talatbek Masadykov.

Note that Armenia, a CSTO member state, did not attend the Collective Security Council meeting. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan attended the COP31 summit held today in Antalya, Türkiye.

Farid Akbarov

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