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 UN experts and the CSTO Secretariat held consultations on cooperation in the field of peacekeeping via videoconferencing
26.03.2021
On March 25, this year, consultations of the CSTO Secretariat representatives with specialists of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations of the UN Secretariat were held at the expert level via videoconferencing.
In the course of the consultations, an exchange of views took place on the sequence of preparation steps and carrying out of certification procedure by the UN experts of training programs on peacekeeping topics of the Military Educational and Scientific Center of the Ground Forces "Combined Arms Order of Zhukov Academy of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation", which is the basic educational and methodological organization for training personnel of the CSTO Peacekeeping Forces.
The experts also discussed issues related to the aspects of registration of the CSTO consolidated peacekeeping formations in the UN Peacekeeping Potential Preparedness System.
One of the important results of the event was the confirmation of the preparedness for further cooperation on the issues of using the CSTO peacekeeping resources in the UN peacekeeping activities.
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The CSTO Press Secretary Vladimir Zaynetdinov
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