On June 14, Foreign Minister of Armenia Edward Nalbandian who has been in Moscow on a working visit attended the session of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the Collective Security Treaty Organization. In the course of session issues concerning different areas of the organization’s activity, a number of decisions were made on the steps to be taken towards the further strengthening and improvement of the organization.

During the session Armenian Foreign Minister delivered a report summarizing the activities undertaken during the Armenian chairmanship in the CSTO towards the coordination member states foreign policy. Edward Nalbandian touched upon the work done since September 2008 - the meetings of the CSTO Foreign Ministers held in New-York and Helsinki by the initiative of Armenia, the consultations of Ambassadors of the CSTO member states in the third countries, as well as events aimed at the coordination.
 
Foreign Ministers of the CSTO member states highly appreciated the results achieved during the Armenian chairmanship and emphasized the efficiency of the implementation of mechanisms in the area of foreign policy coordination.

Ministers discussed the package of the documents to be presented at the session of the Collective Security Council, including the documents on the process of implementation of the Collective Security Council’s decision on “CSTO Rapid Deployment Forces”.

During the session of Ministerial Council they discussed issues concerning the expansion of cooperation between the CSTO and international organizations.
 
The session of Council of Foreign Ministers was followed by the joint session of the Council of Foreign Ministers and Defense Ministers of the CSTO member states. At the session they discussed and approved several documents which will be presented at the session of the Collective Security Council.

Afterwards the session of Foreign Ministers Council was continued in enlarged format.

On the same day Edward Nalbandian participated in the session of the Collective Security Council, within the delegation headed by the President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan.