The number of hotbeds of tension is not decreasing in the world, with poor efforts being taken to resolve decades-old conflicts, Russian President Vladimir Putin was quoted by the Russian news agency TASS as saying on Monday.

"We know how uneasy the situation in many regions of the world is. The number of hotbeds of tension is not going down and decades-old conflicts are not resolved to the scope we would like. For instance, the problem of Afghanistan, the problems of the Middle East, Syria and others," he said, opening a session of the Collective Security Council of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO).

He noted that the CSTO member countries are worried over these factors.

Source: MENA