St. Petersburg will host Collective Security Treaty Organization Parliamentary Assembly (CSTO PA) Council session on Wednesday.
The session will focus on progress in fulfilling resolutions taken at the June session of the CSTO Collective Security Council, discussions about results of studies into the military and political situation in the Eastern Europe collective security region by members of the Assembly, discussions about a draft concept for adjusting and unifying the legislation regulating the collective security of the member-states, illegal migration and other matters.
The session will be chaired by Speaker of the State Duma of the Russian Federation parliament Boris Gryzlov. CSTO Secretary General Nikolai Bordiuzha is also supposed to partake in the session.
Sessions of the CSTO PA’s commissions on political affairs and international cooperation, social, economic and legal matters will take place the same day, BelTA reported.
The CSTO PA Council includes heads of chambers of the parliaments of the member-states. The Assembly was founded in November 2006. Its first session took place on 30 March 2007. The Parliamentary Assembly consists of three commissions: political affairs and international cooperation, defense and security matters, social, economic and legal issues. Representatives of legislative bodies of the CSTO member-states are members of the Assembly.
