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 delegation takes part in the Joint UN-OSCE Conference on Antiterrorism in Vienna
12.02.2020
On February 11-12, 2020, Vienna hosted the Joint High-Level Regional Conference “Foreign Militant Terrorists (FMT): Responding to Modern Challenges”.
The event was held jointly by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), the UN Counter-Terrorism Directorate and Switzerland in cooperation with the current Albanian Chairmanship of the OSCE. The conference was the next stage in a series of regional meetings in the development of decisions convened for the first time by the UN Secretary-General in June 2018 in New York at a high-level United Nations conference with the participation of heads of counter-terrorism agencies of Member States.
At the invitation of the organizers, a delegation of the CSTO Secretariat, led by the head of the Office for Countering Challenges and Threats, Murad Kunakbaev, took part in the Joint Conference in the Austrian capital. His speech at the forum was dedicated to the topic of preventing and preventing the movement of information security services in the context of the Statement made by the heads of the CSTO member states at the meeting of the Collective Security Treaty Organization in November 2018 on coordinated measures against international terrorist organizations against participants in armed conflicts.
A report by M. Kunakbaev, in which he referred, in particular, to the results of the first special operation under the collective security treaty organization format in 2019 under the code name “Mercenary” ("Naemnik"), the purpose of which was to block the channels of recruitment, entry of citizens of CSTO member states or their departure abroad to participate in armed conflicts on the side of international terrorist organizations, as well as the neutralization of their resource base, aroused the interest of the participants in the Vienna meeting.
Speaking at the close of the event, OSCE Secretary-General Thomas Greminger and UN Under-Secretary-General, head of KTU Vladimir Voronkov said that its results would be summarized by the co-chairs and presented to the Second High-level United Nations Conference with the participation of heads of counter-terrorism agencies of the member states, which will be held in New York July 1-2, 2020
The exchange of views of the professionals participating in the Joint Conference - representatives of national anti-terrorist structures and specialized anti-terrorism units of the UN and regional organizations, experts with practical experience was useful for solving the task of forming a broad anti-terrorism front with the central coordinating role of the United Nations.
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The CSTO Press Secretary Vladimir Zaynetdinov
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