On 25 July 2024, staff of the CSTO Secretariat met with graduates of Central Asian universities in the fields of “International relations” and “Regional studies” who are participating in the International School of Diplomacy and are in Moscow at the invitation of the Autonomous Nonprofit Organization ‘National Research Institute for the Development of Communications’ and the Centre for International Strategic Studies of the Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Allow me to thank the Russian presidency of the United Nations Security Council for the invitation to take part in the debate on the interaction between the United Nations and regional organizations - the CSTO, the CIS and the SCO.
I highly appreciate my participation in the meeting of the main body of the World Organization responsible for maintaining global peace and international security. I am convinced that today's debate will contribute to the development of new, additional mechanisms for United Nations cooperation with the CSTO, the CIS and the SCO - the leading regional organizations operating in the Eurasian security space.
The CSTO Secretary General Imangali Tasmagambetov took part in the debate on “UN cooperation with regional organizations: the CSTO, the CIS and the SCO” held on 19 July 2024 at the UN Security Council.
Imangali Tasmagambetov, the Collective Security Treaty Organization Secretary General, told BELTA news agency correspondent whether the CSTO sought to become a counterweight to NATO, the situation in the East European region of collective security, the role of Belarus in the organization, and what initiative of the President of Belarus had become important and timely for the CSTO.
Battlefield archaeology activities of the Military Historical Museum of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Kazakhstan
30.01.2020
The battlefield archaeology department of the Military Historical Museum of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Kazakhstan conducts the search and archival work of search information about Kazakhstan soldiers who were missing or killed in action upon the Great Patriotic War.
In 2020, we celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War. Over a number of years, information about the exact location of the military graves of their ancestors remained unavailable to most Kazakh families, and so far more than 100 thousand Kazakhstan soldiers have been reported dead or missing in action.
To achieve battlefield archaeology goals, we’re using databases with the information about soldiers missing and killed in action, internet resources and previously confidential sources from CIS and foreign countries. Including foreign archives and unclassified reports on irreplaceable combat losses of the Red Army in 1941 – 1945 years.
In addition, joint work is being conducted with regional historical and local historical museums, archives, research scientists, archivists, battlefield archaeologists non-governmental organization “Atamnyn Amanaty” and local military administrative bodies.
As of January 2020, the Military Historical Museum of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Kazakhstan received 556 applications from relatives of the war veterans. According to 48 applications, the information on the location of the primary burials has been established.
38 of them are located in the Russian Federation (Rostov Region, Matveevo-Kurgan District; Oryol Region, Ulyanovsk Region; Karelo-Finnish SSR, Petrovsky District, etc.);
4 - on the territory of Hungary (v. Mike-Perch, western outskirts);
2 - in Latvia (Karsaevsky county);
2 - in Germany (Brandenburg, the village of Neu-Levin, mass grave);
1 - in Poland (Masovian settlement);
1 - Belarus (Polesie region);
From 3 to 5 applications are received daily.
According to an experienced battlefield archaeologist with forty years of experience, the commander of the search squad “Memorial Zone”, Maidan Kusainov, there are numerous methods for searching for missing soldiers: from archive-field works to Internet search. Now various groups and communities in social networks are becoming a powerful resource in resolving the issue of finding fallen warriors.
The department plans include improvement of battlefield archaeology activities and perpetuating the memory of returned names by organizing trips to the burial places in the CIS and European countries, giving tribute to honored dead and conducting the last military ceremonies for heroes, who had won the Great Victory for all of us.
https://www.gov.kz/memleket/entities/mod/press/news/details/poiskovo-ekspedicionnaya-deyatelnost-voenno-istoricheskogo-muzeya-vs-rk?lang=ru
