The 23rd meeting of the Military Committee on military cooperation development among the CSTO member states under the supervision of the Chairman of the Military Committee, Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation - First Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, Army General Valery Gerasimov, took place today via videoconferencing.
From April 8 to 11, 2024, the XXI International Seminar-Meeting on Combined Martial Arts with the heads of combat and physical training of the security ministries and agencies of the CSTO member states took place at the Park Hotel "Horizon", Odintsovo District, Moscow Region.
The event was addressed by Gennady Troislit, the Deputy Head of the Organizational and Planning Department of the CSTO Secretariat, and Oleg Ufimtsev, the President of the Russian Federation of Combined Martial Arts.
The CSTO Secretary General Stanislav Zas had a meeting with the OSCE Secretary General Helga Schmid, who visited the CSTO Secretariat for the first time and addressed the enlarged meeting of the Permanent Council of the CSTO
22.06.2021
On June 22, this year, the CSTO Secretary General Stanislav Zas had a meeting with the Secretary General of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe Helga Schmid, who visited the CSTO Secretariat for the first time as part of her visit to the Russian Federation. She also addressed an enlarged meeting of the CSTO Permanent Council.
Stanislav Zas noted in his welcoming remarks that the development of constructive relations with the OSCE occupied a prominent place in the CSTO's foreign policy agenda. "The CSTO and the OSCE should strengthen their role in overcoming complex security threats in the Eurasian and Euro-Atlantic space. This will contribute to strengthening a common and indivisible Euro-Atlantic and Eurasian security community," - the CSTO Secretary General said.
He stressed that the CSTO was interested in expanding contacts and developing cooperation between the CSTO and the OSCE in foreign policy and military-political areas, as well as in combating terrorism and related extremism and drug trafficking. "The situation in Afghanistan should be the subject of special attention. We advocate the development and adoption of joint statements on Afghanistan and other issues of relevance to both organizations," Stanislav Zas said in the course of a meeting with Helga Schmid.
He noted that through the intensification of interaction, it was possible to achieve significantly greater effectiveness of efforts undertaken through both the CSTO and the OSCE.
"Challenges and threats in the field of security are not becoming fewer, the fight against them must unite our organizations. In the current circumstances, despite the growth of confrontation and, in fact, the narrowing or even blocking of a number of important channels of communication in Europe, we believe that it is the OSCE, its institutions created to seek opportunities for conflict prevention, monitoring and assistance in conflict resolution, that remain the platforms where difficult dialogue continues," the CSTO Secretary General summarized.
In turn, Helga Schmid noted that the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe and the Collective Security Treaty Organization were strengthening cooperation. "Let me say that both the OSCE and the CSTO support cooperation in some areas, but there are also some areas of cooperation where we could strengthen our interaction," the OSCE Secretary General said.
Helga Schmid recalled that at the OSCE Forum for Security Cooperation on June 9, this year, the need to develop dialogue in securing borders in order to counter terrorism and organized crime, as well as to combat drug trafficking, was mentioned.
Summarizing the meeting and Helga Schmid's speech at the meeting of the CSTO Permanent Council, the CSTO Secretary General said that the CSTO and the OSCE would also work to strengthen cooperation in the field of border protection and combating crime in the information sphere. "Today the need to develop cooperation in other areas was mentioned: border protection, suppressing cybercrime - this is a very relevant topic, which we are already dealing with," Stanislav Zas said.
"We intend to continue to hold meetings at such a high level. We should increase mutual participation in each other's events. We are ready to increase the participation of the OSCE representatives in our events: both in the military and in other areas of security," the CSTO Secretary General summed up.
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