MOSCOW, June 10. /ITAR-TASS/. A meeting of the Defense Ministers of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) in Moscow on Tuesday will discuss a plan of consultations over foreign policy issues, security and defense in the second half of this year and the first half of 2015, as well as a plan of rapid deployment of CSTO forces.

Taking part in the meeting, to be chaired by Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu will be CSTO Secretary General Nikolai Bordyuzha, who will report on the situation in the CSTO responsibility zone and topical issues of military cooperation.

Among other participants are the defense ministers of Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Tajikistan, as well as representatives of the CSTO Secretariat and the Collective Rapid Reaction Force.

The CSTO officials are expected to visit a Russian missile defense unit in Moscow region protecting the central industrial district, and see armaments and equipments in service with the Russian army.