The event will also be attended by Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan, Presidents of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, Kyrgyzstan Sadyr Japarov and President of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon.
Russian President Vladimir Putin is due to visit Yerevan on Wednesday to attend a session of the Collective Security Council, the main body of the Moscow-led bloc known as the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO).
The summit is expected to be attended by Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, Kyrgyz President Sadyr Zhaparov and Tajik President Emomali Rakhmon.
The participation of Kazakh leader Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, who won the snap presidential election by a landslide on November 20, is now in doubt as his inauguration ceremony is scheduled for November 26.
The Kremlin's press service previously reported that the Yerevan summit will focus on key areas of cooperation within the organization, as well as major international and regional issues.
Putin is expected to meet Pashinyan on the sidelines of the event. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov earlier said that the Russian leader "will have the opportunity" to also meet his Belarusian counterpart.
CSTO Member States. The participants of these events are expected to discuss the military and political situation in the areas of collective security, as well as foreign policy, military and anti-terrorist cooperation within the CSTO and measures to strengthen the collective security system.
Aid to Armenia The CSTO Secretariat previously said leaders would pay particular attention to the organization's crisis response mechanism and joint actions to help Armenia amid recent tensions on its border with Azerbaijan. a video link on October 28th.
In addition, on October 31, the Russian Black Sea resort city of Sochi hosted face-to-face talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev.
Armenia expects a clear political assessment of Azerbaijan's actions on the common border and the adoption of a roadmap to restore the country's territorial integrity from the participants of Wednesday's meeting.
Belarusian Presidency Next year, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko is expected to announce his country's presidency priorities at the organization. In addition, the Collective Security Council will discuss the issue of the CSTO Secretary General in light of the upcoming rotation on January 1, 2023.
The organization's current secretary general, Stanislav Zas, said after a meeting with the Belarusian leader in early November, Minsk presented a set of traditionally simple" priorities: The organization should focus on "urgent problems" rather than "abstract and made-up" ones. problems. Threats from Afghanistan.
The issue of Afghanistan and threats posed by the country remain in the organization's spotlight. Tajik President Emomali Rakhmon earlier said Afghan terrorist groups are consolidating their positions in Afghanistan, including with the help of advanced digital technologies.
According to him, such remains a serious threat to the entire Central Asian region. At the same time, the Tajik government has repeatedly expressed concern about the increase in drug trafficking from Afghanistan.
According to the country's Attorney General's Office, the amount of contraband Afghan drugs seized in Tajikistan has almost doubled to four million tons since 2020.
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