OREANDA-NEWS. September 5, 2008. The Presidents of Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan took part in the summit.

The summit concluded with the adoption of the Declaration of the Moscow Session of the CSTO Collective Security Council. The summit also approved the CSTO Collective Action Plan for implementing the UN Global Counterterrorist Strategy for 2008-2012 and the Joint Action Programme on forming information security systems among the CSTO member states. The Collective Security Council also adopted a decision ‘On Additional Measures to Reinforce Anti-Narcotics Work within the CSTO’.

The summit discussed implementation of the Plan for Coalition Military Construction and made adjustments to a council decision of 2001 on collective rapid reaction forces in the Central Asian collective security region. The summit endorsed the regulation governing procedures for drafting, financing and implementing CSTO targeted inter-governmental programmes.