"The core issue is real coordination of foreign policies, where addressing new threat and challenges is concerned. The mechanisms we use to adjust our approaches act not as efficiently as they could," the source said.
Real operation of the Organization's military structures will also be on the agenda at the summit, the source went on. Joint air defense action might also be discussed, but, according to the source, "just basically, not about signing a certain plan."
"We have to address the real environment within the [Collective Security] Treaty's jurisdiction," the agency's source added.
The CSTO leadership will also dwell upon military-technical cooperation within the framework of the Organization, on staff training, and on the part CSTO is to play in the regional and world security system.
Russian President's aide Sergei Prikhodko told RIA Novosti that the leaders of CSTO member states would also discuss war on terrorism and the developments of armed conflicts across the world. The agency's Kremlin source said in this context that Vladimir Putin would tell his CSTO counterparts about the outcomes of the G8 Sea Island Summit.
"The President may speak about the so-called Broader Middle East concept," he assumed.
Commentators say that the situation in Afghanistan, fight against drug smuggling, CSTO's cooperation with other international regional organizations, UN, and OSCE are also likely to be on the agenda of the Astana Summit.
The Collective Security Treaty Organization is a regional military and political organization within the framework of CIS.
The decision to establish the CSTO was adopted on May 14, 2002 at the 10th session of the Collective Security Treaty in Moscow.
On October 7, 2002 CSTO heads of state signed the CSTO Charter and the Agreement on the CSTO Legal Status. The Charter and the Agreement were ratified by the State Duma on April 25, 2003, by the Federation Council on May 14, 2003, and signed into law by the Russian President on May 26, 2003.
The Charter was the basis for the provisions regulating the activities of the Organization, including those on CSTO bodies, and organizational and financial arrangements, adopted at the Dushanbe session on April 28, 2003.
By September 18, 2003 all member states of the Organization had ratified the CSTO Charter and the Agreement on the CSTO Legal Status.
The Charter establishes the Collective Security Treaty Organization as an international regional organization, defines its goals and principles, fields of activity, bodies, the decision-making procedure, the membership criteria, legal competence, and a number of other issues pertaining to the Organization's routine activities.
The provisions of the Agreement define the legal competence, privileges and immunities of the Organization, its officials and employees, representatives of member states participating in the Organization's events; it defines the employment principles and social protection CSTO's staff is provided with.
The supreme political body of the Organization is the Collective Security Council. The Council coordinates joint efforts of the member states to fulfill the Collective Security Treaty signed on May 15, 1992.
Since April 28, 2003 the Collective Security Council has been presided over by President of Tajikistan Emomali Rakhmonov.
Since April 28, 2003 Russia's Nikolai Bordyuzha has been Secretary General of the Collective Security Council.
Since February 25, 2004 Igor Khalevinsky has been Russia's Official Representative at the CSTO.
The Organization runs the following defense structures: a Rapid Deployment Collective Force and a Joint HQ, Rapid Deployment Collective Force.
The Joint Headquarters of the CSTO has been operational since January 1, 2004 on the basis of the Russian General Staff in Moscow. CSTO Chief of Staff is Tajik Armed Forces Chief of Staff Maj. Gen. Ramil Nadirov (appointed April 28, 2003, in office since January 1, 2004). Deputy CSTO Chief of Staff is Russia's Lt. Gen. Vasily Zavgorodniy (appointed September 18, 2003).
