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Armenia has declared its intention to withdraw from the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), a defense alliance formed in 1992 among former Soviet republics with Russia at its core. The CSTO currently comprises Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Armenia.

According to the Russian media, the Russian Minister of Defense, Sergei Shoigu, organized the evacuation of over 500 citizens of Russia, but also citizens of the member countries of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) and citizens of Ukraine.

For the next year, he announced the first military exercise with China.
"We are cooperating with the NATO Alliance, but we are also cooperating with the CSTO (the Collective Security Treaty Organization made by former USSR countries) that do not ask us to give up part of the territory", Vulin said at the Serbian Parliament.

The exercise was held June 19-28 at the Rayevsky training ground in Russia's Novorossiysk region, the Serbian Ministry of Defense (MoD) has announced.

BELGRADE - Serbia is pursuing an independent foreign policy and remains committed to military neutrality, Serbian Defence Minister Aleksandar Vulin said at a meeting with Lt Gen Yuri Khatchaturov, secretary-general of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO), on Thursday.

MOSCOW - Serbia is pursuing a policy of military neutrality and has no intention of becoming a member of either the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO) or NATO, but has a "great desire" to deepen its cooperation with CSTO and all its members, Serbian Defence Minister Aleksandar Vulin said on Monday.

Serbian Defense Minister Aleksandar met on Monday in Moscow with Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) Secretary General Yuri Khachaturov.

The meeting, held at the CSTO headquarters, considered the possibilities and perspectives of future cooperation, while Vulin and Khachaturov "exchanged stances" on current security and political situation in the region and in the world.

Defense Minister Zoran Djordjevic on Friday in Belgrade received high ranking officials of CSTO and NATO in separate meetings.

Serbia will take part in a CSTO military drill - this year for the first time as a full-fledged member, Sputnik is reporting.

The exercise, dubbed "Indestructible Brotherhood," will be organized in September in Kazakhstan.

Serbia is committed to remaining militarily neutral, Zoran Djordjevic, the defense minister in Serbia's outgoing government, said in Moscow on Tuesday.

He made the remark in a conversation with Secretary General of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) Nikolai Bordyuzha.