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.
A meeting of the Working Group on Military-Economic Cooperation under the Chairman of the CSTO Interstate Commission on Military-Economic Cooperation was held on 17-18 April 2024
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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 meeting participants have reviewed the implementation of the decisions of the XXI ICMEC meeting held in April 2023 in Dushanbe of the Republic of Tajikistan, as well as discussed the range of issues to be submitted to the XXII meeting of the Commission in September this year in the Kyrgyz Republic.
An important result of the work was the finalization of draft documents on the development of multilateral cooperation between enterprises and organizations of the defense-industrial (military-industrial) complexes of CSTO member states, the conduct of research and development work within the framework of the CSTO, and issues of mutual protection of rights to the results of intellectual activity obtained and used in the course of military-economic cooperation in the CSTO format.
The possibility of organizing the training of engineering and technical personnel for defense enterprises of CSTO member states has also been considered, on the basis of which appropriate proposals have been drawn up for consideration within the framework of the CSTO Intestate Commission on Military-Economic Cooperation in order to organize such work on a systematic basis.
As a result of the discussion of the issues on the Agenda of the meeting, it was deemed necessary to continue to coordinate the draft documents on the establishment of an interstate system for cataloguing supplies for the armed forces of CSTO member states.
In addition, the draft Work Plan of the Commission for 2025 was agreed upon.
