On 13 November 2023, the XVI meeting of the Council of the Collective Security Treaty Organization's Consultative Coordination Centre for Responding to Computer Incidents (CSTO CCC) was held in Moscow, with the participation of leading experts and representatives of the national authorized bodies for Responding to Computer Incidents of the CSTO member states.
A meeting of the CSTO Collective Security Council was held in Minsk on 23 November.
The heads of states have discussed in detail current problems of international and regional security and the main results of the activities of the CSTO during the inter-sessional period.
A meeting of the heads of the Collective Security Treaty Organization member states under the chairmanship of the President of the Republic of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko has begun in Minsk in the narrow format.
On 22 November 2023, in Minsk, a joint meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers, the Council of Defense Ministers and the Committee of Secretaries of the Security Councils of the CSTO was held. Representatives of the Republic of Armenia did not take part in the meeting.
In accordance with the Action Plan for the implementation of the decisions of the November 20-22 session of the CSTO CSC and the fulfilment of the priority areas of the Organization’s activities, two documents relevant to the stabilization of the situation in the South Caucasus have been developed so far under the chairmanship of the Republic of Belarus.
The CSTO Secretary General Imangali Tasmagambetov held a meeting with the UN Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs Rosemary DiCarlo
16.06.2023
On June 16, 2023, the CSTO Secretary General Imangali Tasmagambetov received at the headquarters of the Organization the UN Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs Rosemary DiCarlo, who is on a visit to Moscow.
A thorough exchange of views took place on a wide range of issues of mutual interest. The parties highly appreciated the cooperation established between the CSTO Secretariat and the relevant structures of the UN Secretariat, which is concrete and constructive. Particular attention was paid to the participation of the CSTO Secretariat in the international discussion "A New Agenda for Peace" - an initiative of the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.
Considerable attention was paid to regional problems in the CSTO area of responsibility, as well as the prospects for strengthening cooperation with the UN Regional Center for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia.
The progressive development of working contacts between the two organizations in the field of maintaining international peace and security, including the fight against terrorism, drug trafficking, cross-border crime and illegal migration, was noted. The prospects for intensifying cooperation on peacekeeping issues were considered, including the prospects for integrating the collective peacekeeping potential of the CSTO into peacekeeping operations conducted in accordance with the mandate of the UN Security Council.
As a result of the conversation, the mutual disposition to further develop the interaction of the CSTO with the UN on the basis of the joint Declaration on Cooperation of March 18, 2010 was confirmed.
