On 20 September 2023, in Bishkek, an international conference on combating terrorism and extremism was held. The event was organized by the State Committee for National Security of the Kyrgyz Republic and the Anti-Terrorist Centre of the CIS member states.
In accordance with the CSTO CCBCD Plan of Basic Activities for 2023, a subregional anti-drug operation "Channel-Perekhvat" was carried out in the territory of the CSTO member states from 11 to 15 September, this year, with a view to suppressing channels for the flow of drugs, their precursors and analogues and new psychoactive and potent substances into the CSTO region of responsibility, neutralizing international transnational drug groups, eliminating clandestine drug production and undermining the economic foundations of the drug business, including the legalization of drug proceeds. The subregional anti-drug operation "Channel-Perekhvat" was carried out in order to legalize drug profits.
The CSTO Secretary General Imangali Tasmagambetov met with the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on 14 September 2023.
Within the framework of the chairmanship of the Republic of Belarus in the Collective Security Treaty Organization, a regular Coordination Meeting of Chief Narcologists of the CSTO member states was held in Minsk on 7 September 2023.
On 6 September 2023, in Bishkek, the CSTO Secretary General Imangali Tasmagambetov met with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kyrgyz Republic Jeenbek Kulubayev, the Minister of Defense Baktybek Bekbolotov and the Secretary of the country's Security Council Marat Imankulov to discuss topical issues in preparation for the upcoming meetings of the Organization's statutory bodies - the Collective Security Council, the Council of Foreign Ministers, the Council of Defense Ministers and the Committee of Secretaries of Security Councils.
On November 5, 2019, the XII plenary session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Collective Security Treaty Organization was held in Yerevan
06.11.2019
On November 5, 2019, the outgoing twelfth plenary meeting of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Collective Security Treaty Organization was held in Yerevan. The meeting was attended by the CSTO Acting Secretary General, Valery Semerikov.
Assessing the military-political situation in the world, he said that against the backdrop of growing conflict potential, the real danger of dismantling the existing architecture of international security, a crisis of confidence and confrontation, the likelihood of both local and large-scale armed conflicts significantly increases.
In his speech, Valery Semerikov also noted that today there is a very important and great work to implement the decision of the Collective Security Council of the Organization on the status of the CSTO Observer and CSTO Partner.
“I am sure that the creation of these institutions will allow us to work more effectively in many areas of activity, increase the credibility and image of the CSTO on the world stage, ” Valery Semerikov emphasized. “I took this opportunity to note with satisfaction our interaction with the CSTO Parliamentary Assembly and its Secretariat and committees."
The participants in the plenary session unanimously elected Vyacheslav Volodin as Chairman of the CSTO Parliamentary Assembly, and Sergey Pospelov, whose duties he had been in charge of since May this year, as its Chairperson.
The CSTO Parliamentary Assembly adopted model legislative acts and recommendations introduced at the initiative of the standing committees of the CSTO Parliamentary Assembly:
- CSTO Model Law “On Non-State Entities for Ensuring National Security”;
recommendations:
- on improving the national legislation of the CSTO member states in the field of the functioning of collective peacekeeping forces;
- on approximation of the legislation of the CSTO member states on property confiscation in the interests of combating corruption, the financing of terrorism and other types of crimes;
- on harmonization of the legislation of the CSTO member states on ensuring internal stability and counteracting technologies of external destructive impact, aimed at destabilizing the socio-political situation;
- to provide collective humanitarian assistance in response to emerging crisis situations in the territory of the CSTO member states;
- to improve the national legislation of the CSTO member states in the field of countering the spread of Nazism and its manifestations;
- a recommendation list of corpus delicti and administrative offenses in the field of ensuring the information security of individuals, society and the state for the CSTO member states.
The CSTO Parliamentary Assembly forwarded the adopted model legislative acts and recommendations to the parliaments of the CSTO member states for use in improving the legislation of the Organization's member states.
The parliamentarians made amendments and additions to article 9 of the Provisional Regulation on the Parliamentary Assembly of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (March 30, 2007).
