On 22 April 2024, the CSTO Secretariat hosted a working meeting between the Deputy Secretary General of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, Samat Ordabaev, and the Special Representative of the UN Secretary General for Central Asia, Head of the UN Regional Centre for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia (UNRCCA), Kakha Imnadze.
From 22 to 26 April, this year, the CSTO Secretariat is holding an annual training meeting for representatives of ministries and departments of the Collective Security Treaty Organization member states without military status.
The meeting was held in the city of Moscow under the chairmanship of Viktor Zinoviev, Secretary of the CSTO Interstate Commission on Military-Economic Cooperation (ICMEC, Commission).
The CSTO Secretariat held the 35th meeting of the Working Group on Afghanistan at the CSTO Ministerial Council
01.04.2022
On April 1, 2022, the 35th meeting of the Working Group on Afghanistan at the CSTO Ministerial Council was held with the participation of the CSTO Deputy Secretary General Samat Ordabayev. Delegations of the Organization's member States and representatives of the UN Regional Centre for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia, the CIS ATC, the CIS Coordination Service of the Council of Border Troop Commanders, the SCO RATS and the ICRC also took part in the event.
In the course of the meeting, the CSTO Deputy Secretary General S. Ordabayev noted that the Afghan issue continued to be very topical for the international community. Significant attention was paid to this issue in the framework of the meeting of the OSCE Ministerial Council (December 2021) as well as on February 16, this year, during the meeting of the UN Security Council devoted to the cooperation between the UN and the CSTO in ensuring global security. The timeliness of the Third Ministerial Conference of Afghanistan's Neighboring Countries (March 31, this year, China) on the promotion of post-conflict reconstruction and the normalization of the socio-economic situation in this state was emphasized.
The meeting participants held a thorough exchange of views on the military and political situation in Afghanistan. Information on cooperation of the CSTO member States in training law enforcement, customs and anti-drug structures was considered. The results of the work of the Group for the first half of 2022 were summarized.
At the end the Protocol of the meeting and the Plan of work of the Group for the second half of 2022 were adopted.
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