Sputnik is live from Minsk where a meeting of the foreign ministers of the CSTO member states is taking place. The CSTO is an intergovernmental military bloc comprised of six countries – Russia, Armenia, Belarus, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan – all of them former members of the Soviet Union.
On the day of the meeting, Lavrov also said that the West regards the CSTO as a threat to its global domination and thus tries to sow discord among the alliance’s members, just like it tries to do the same with the BRICS and the SCO.