SEVAN (Armenia), December 10 (RIA Novosti) - The Russian and Belarusian state security councils have signed a cooperation plan for next year, the head of the Russian Security Council said on Wednesday.
The plan was signed at a meeting of security council chiefs of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) in Armenia.
Russia and Belarus are both members of the CSTO, which also comprises Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan.
Nikolai Patrushev said Russia and Belarus were strategic partners and worked together in a variety of areas, in particular stressing attempts to reach common positions at international organizations that both countries enjoy membership of.
