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During the meeting, members of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO) expressed their unanimous view that security relations between the member countries should have a higher priority than their security relations with other countries.

After the meeting, Mr Putin said that the member countries had worked out a mechanism which would make the Collective Security Treaty an instrument that could promptly react to a fast changing world. He stressed that all states that shared the same approach could enter the CSTO.

Mr Putin emphasised the importance of a joint statement on prioritising the treaty over all other security measures used by the member countries.