The Kremlin hosted a CSTO summit
The meeting was attended by the heads of Russia, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.
Vladimir Putin noted the strengthening of the CSTO as an effective regional defence agency that ensures security and stability in the Eurasian space.
“The CSTO's successful peacekeeping operation, held in Kazakhstan in January 2022, showed the maturity of our Organisation and its real ability to adequately withstand acute challenges and threats,” the Russian President noted.
The President also emphasised:
“During the special operation in Ukraine, documentary evidence was obtained that components of biological weapons were developed in close proximity to our borders, which violates the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention, and possible methods and mechanisms were worked out to destabilise the epidemic situation in the post-Soviet space."
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