ArmInfo.On October 30, a meeting of the Council of Defense Ministers of the CIS countries will be held in Baku.
As already officially stated in the Armenian defense department, Armenia will not take part in the work of the council. "Armenian Defense Minister David Tonoyan will not take part in the meeting of the Council of CIS Ministers of Defense in Baku," said Armenian Defense Ministry spokesman Artsrun Hovannisyan. Meanwhile, as reported earlier in the Azerbaijani defense department, the Minister of Defense of Azerbaijan Zakir Hasanov, Russian Minister of Defense Sergey Shoigu, Belarusian Minister of Defense Andrei Ravkov, Kazakh Minister of Defense Nurlan Yermekbayev, Uzbek Minister of Defense Bakhodir Kurbanov, Tajik Minister of Defense Mirzo Sherali and Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Kyrgyzstan Raimiberdi Duishenbiev will participate in the session.
In turn, the CIS executive committee said that it is planned to consider a set of issues of multilateral cooperation of the Commonwealth states in the military sphere at a meeting of the CMO <The key attention at the meeting will be paid to the Concept of military cooperation of the CIS member states until 2025. The draft Concept aims to achieve a new level of cooperation in the military sphere, reflects the national interests and joint priorities of the Commonwealth states in the field of security and counteraction to modern challenges and threats>, the CIS states.
In addition, issues of training officers for the armed forces of the member states of the Commonwealth of Independent States, on joint activities for the 75th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945, and other important areas in the field of military cooperation will be considered. During the joint work, the heads of defense departments will analyze the state of development of military cooperation, outline joint activities for the next year and the near future, and consider other issues of partnership in the defense and security sphere in the CIS.
The meeting will also be attended by Chairman of the CIS Executive Committee Sergey Lebedev.