On behalf of the CSTO PA Secretariat, Sergei Pospelov, Executive Secretary of the CSTO PA, also sent words of support to the Speaker of the Parliament of the Islamic Consultative Assembly of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
“Dear Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf! The Secretariat of the CSTO Parliamentary Assembly expresses its deepest condolences to the Iranian people on the tragic death in a helicopter crash of the President of the Islamic Republic of Iran Mr. Ebrahim Raisi and the people who accompanied him. In this difficult hour, we mourn together with you”.
Iranian parliamentarians regularly take part in the events of the CSTO Parliamentary Assembly and have repeatedly expressed the interest of the Islamic Republic of Iran in cooperation with the Collective Security Treaty Organization.