The CSTO PA Council decided to start working on a new lawmaking programme for 2021–2025.

On November 5, 2019 Yerevan hosted the session of the CSTO Parliamentary Assembly Council. The CSTO PA Council decided to start working on a new lawmaking programme for 2021–2025.
The session of the Council of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Collective Security Treaty Organization was attended by the heads of the parliaments of the CSTO Member States: the Republic of Armenia, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Russian Federation, the Republic of Tajikistan, observers at the CSTO Parliamentary Assembly, representatives of the CSTO Secretariat.
Meeting participants addressed the topical issues of international and collective security and discussed areas of current activities of the Organization.
Vyacheslav VOLODIN, Chairman of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Collective Security Treaty Organization and Chairman of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, reported on the session’s agenda.
The CSTO PA Council members considered the issue regarding the Chairman of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Collective Security Treaty Organization. Vyacheslav VOLODIN’S candidacy was put to a vote at the plenary session of the CSTO Parliamentary Assembly.
At the proposal of Sergei POSPELOV, CSTO PA Acting Executive Secretary, the members of the CSTO PA Council have approved the candidacies of Chairman and Deputy Chairman of the CSTO PA Standing Committee on Social, Economic and Legal Issues and reviewed the CSTO Parliamentary Assembly action plan for 2020.
Special attention was paid to the commencement of work on the draft CSTO Parliamentary Assembly 2021–2025 Action Programme on Approximation and Harmonization of National Legislation of the CSTO Member States.
In his report, Dastan JUMABEKOV, Speaker of the Supreme Council of the Kyrgyz Republic, summarized his country’s chairmanship of the Collective Security Treaty Organization in 2019.
Valery SEMERIKOV, Acting CSTO Secretary General, reported to the Council members on the military and political situation in the CSTO’s area of responsibility and the Organization’s tasks in the current environment.​