14 Oct 2016 09:26

Kazakh PM goes to Yerevan for CSTO summit

ASTANA. Oct 14 (Interfax) - Kazakh Prime Minister Bakytzhan Sagintayev is en route to Yerevan, the capital of Armenia, to attend a session of the Collective Security Council of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), the prime minister's press service said on Friday.

It was reported that the leaders of Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan would first hold a narrow-format meeting and would then be joined by their delegations for a plenary session. The prime minister will represent Kazakhstan at the summit because of Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev's illness.