The meeting has brought together vice ministers of defence, foreign affairs, and finance, undersecretaries of Security Councils of the Collective Security Treaty Organization member states-Belarus, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Armenia.

Russian foreign ministry information and press department reported that this meeting is the final stage of the preparation to the CSTO session scheduled for June 23. The High Level Group will consider drafts agreements to be submitted to the June session.

These documents cover all spheres of the CSTO's activity, including improving foreign policy, military cooperation, fighting against present-day challenges and threats preventing.

Azerbaijan is not the member of the CSTO, APA reports.