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 Secretary General Stanislav Zas took part in the OSCE ministerial meeting in Stockholm and in the course of the discussion spoke on the situation in Afghanistan
03.12.2021
On December 2 to 3, 2021, by the invitation of the Chairperson-in-Office of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, Swedish Foreign Minister Ann Linde, the CSTO Secretary General Stanislav Zas participated in the 28th meeting of the OSCE Ministerial Council and in the Ministerial meeting of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the CSTO member States held “as margin notes” of the OSCE CFM by the initiative of the Armenian Chairmanship.
In the course of the meeting, Stanislav Zas also spoke about the implications of development in Afghanistan for the OSCE region. "As margin notes” of the OSCE CFM, he had a working meeting with the OSCE Secretary General Helga Schmid, during which the two parties discussed prospects for interaction between the two regional organizations.
The CSTO Secretary General also discussed current issues of cooperation development in the CSTO format in a series of bilateral meetings with the foreign ministers of the CSTO member States.
