MOSCOW, December 22. /TASS/. Military exercises in Central Asia will be held in 2015 within the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), Secretary-General Nikolay Bordyuzha said on Monday.

The defense ministers approved a plan on conducting exercises. The exercises will involve rapid reaction force, rapid deployments forces, peacekeeping forces and special-purpose forces, Bordyuzha said.

A plan for countering extremism and terrorism was also approved, he said.