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.
The CSTO Deputy Secretary General Valery Semerikov took part in the 2020 OSCE-wide Counter-Terrorism Video Conference (Vienna, Austria)
14.09.2020
On September 14, 2020, in Vienna, the capital of the Republic of Austria, under the chairmanship of Albania, the OSCE-wide Counter-Terrorism Video Conference started and will last two days.
The theme of the conference under the Albanian chairmanship is “Effective Partnership Against Terrorism and Violent Extremism and Radicalization Leading to Terrorism”.
The event is attended by delegations from the UN, the OSCE member states, headed mainly by the deputy heads of foreign affairs agencies, and a number of leading international and regional organizations.
During the first day of the conference, the parties discussed and assessed the state of affairs in the field of international cooperation and coordination of actions in the context of preventing terrorism and violent extremism and radicalization leading to terrorism and combating them in the OSCE region, taking into account the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Valery Semerikov, the Deputy Secretary General of the Organization, presented his projection on this CSTO issue via videoconferencing
He informed the participants about the consolidated efforts undertaken by the CSTO member states in the format of the Organization in the fight against international terrorism and related extremism, based on the implementation of the UN Global Anti-Terrorism Strategy and relevant UN Security Council resolutions (2178, 2396).
In the interests of enhancing international cooperation in dissemination in the fight against the spread of terrorist ideology and propaganda, Valery Semerikov called on the Conference participants to unite collective efforts in the field of information security based on the rules, norms and principles of responsible behavior in the information space.
The full text of the speech of the CSTO Deputy Secretary General V.A. Semerikov:
