President Vladimir Putin took part in the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (#CSTO) summit in Armenia.
Key points:
Military-technical cooperation between the CSTO member states
is expanding.
All of us rally together to
preserve the memory of the common history of our states, of the fact that our peoples won in the Great Patriotic War together.
Cooperation in the CSTO format yields tangible, practical results and helps us
ensure the protection of our countries' national interests, sovereignty and independence.
The threat of militants from different international terrorist organisations penetrating the CSTO member states’ territories remains high. The spread of
extremist ideology among the people of the Central Asian countries promotes the risk of increased activity of the radical underground in the region.
We will facilitate
stabilisation in Afghanistan through other multilateral mechanisms as well.
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