The CSTO Secretary General Imangali Tasmagambetov told RIA Novosti, commenting on the terrorist attack in “Crocus City Hall” that terrorism was used in hybrid warfare, provoked inter-ethnic and inter-religious discord, so the CSTO member states needed tools to counter this phenomenon.
In the period from 12 to 13 March 2024, in the Collective Security Treaty Organization, a strategic command and staff training is being conducted under the supervision of Colonel-General Andrei Serdyukov, Chief of the Joint Staff, during which issues related to stabilizing the situation in the Central Asian region of collective security in the context of the growing threat of a crisis situation are being worked out.
Imangali Tasmagambetov - on the relations between the Collective Security Treaty Organization and the Armenian leadership, the CSTO peacekeeping work and the security situation in Eurasia.
On 11 March 2024, the CSTO Secretariat hosted a round table on "Cooperation in the Information and Analytical Sphere to Ensure Collective Security" on the occasion of the Tajik Press Day. The event was attended by the Head of the Department for the Study of Regional Security Problems of the Strategic Research Centre under the President of the Republic of Tajikistan, Sayhamid Sharifzoda, the Permanent Representative of the Republic of Tajikistan to the CSTO, Khasan Sultonov, and representatives of the Tajik media.
The CSTO Council of Foreign Ministers was held via videoconferencing. Foreign ministers have discussed topical security issues and cooperation with the UN in the field of peacekeeping
01.12.2020On December 1, this year, under the chairmanship of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergei Lavrov, a regular meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, with the participation of the CSTO Secretary General Stanislav Zas, was held via videoconferencing,
An exchange of views took place on topical security issues and increasing the efficiency of the CSTO, practical aspects of strengthening interaction between member states in the format of the Organization and in the international arena, on cooperation between the CSTO and the UN, including within the framework of peacekeeping activities under the auspices of the UN. Jean-Paul Lacroix, the UN Deputy Secretary General for Peacekeeping Operations, addressed the CSTO Ministerial Council members with a video message.
Chairman of the CSTO Council of Foreign Ministers Sergey Lavrov informed his colleagues about the results of the Russian chairmanship in the Organization in 2019-2020.
The ministers presented assessments of the state and prospects for the development of the international and regional situation and its impact on stability in the CSTO space.
A number of documents and political statements were approved, which will be submitted for consideration and approval to the heads of the CSTO member states in the course of the upcoming on December 2, this year, sessions of the Organization's Collective Security Council, including the draft Declaration of the Collective Security Council and the Statement on the formation of a just and sustainable world order.
At ministerial level of the CSTO member states, a Joint Statement "On the Occasion of the 75th Anniversary of the End of the World War II" and A Joint Statement a Joint Statement of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the CSTO member states "On the Situation in Afghanistan" were adopted.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Tajikistan, Sirojiddin Mukhriddin, presented the priority directions of the Organization's activities during the chairmanship of the Republic of Tajikistan in the CSTO (in the course of the session of the CSTO Collective Security Council on December 2, this year, the rotation of the chairmanship is transferred from Russia to the Republic of Tajikistan).
The next meeting of the CSTO Council of Foreign Ministers is planned to be held in May 2021 in Dushanbe.
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