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 had a meeting with the Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu in Moscow
20.02.2023
On February 20 this year, the CSTO Secretary General Imangali Tasmagambetov met with the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, Army General Sergei Shoigu. They have discussed topical issues concerning the development of the military component of the Organization and the improvement of its force potential.
The meeting was held in the building of the Russian Ministry of Defense on Frunzenskaya Naberezhnaya in Moscow.
Imangali Tasmagambetov has informed Sergei Shoigu about the results of his recent visit to Minsk, where at a meeting with the Chairman of the Collective Security Council, the President of the Republic of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, the Action Plan was approved to implement decisions of the November (2022) session of the CSTO and fulfill the priority areas of the CSTO during the period of the Republic of Belarus presidency, which included a large section on the development of cooperation in the military and military-technical sphere.
"The Belarusian priorities are aimed at improving the readiness of the components of the Collective Security Treaty Organization to fulfill their tasks and strengthen the military and technical cooperation between the CSTO member states; they fully correspond to the current military and political situation and reflect the most urgent and promising directions of development of the military component of the Organization," the CSTO Secretary General stressed.
He informed the Russian Minister of Defense that in 2023 the Plan of joint training of formations of forces and means of the collective security system provided for a number of major trainings of the Collective Forces in the Republic of Belarus. "In September, the "Interaction-2023" training with the Collective Rapid Reaction Forces, a special training with the forces and means of intelligence "Search-2023" and "Echelon-2023" training with logistical support units are planned. The work on improvement of the management system of the Collective Forces is actively going on, in particular, in the field of communication," the CSTO Secretary General noted. He also added that it was proposed to hold a training with the CSTO Peacekeeping Forces "Indestructible Brotherhood-2023" on the territory of the Kyrgyz Republic.
In turn, Sergei Shoigu congratulated Imangali Tasmagambetov on his appointment as the CSTO Secretary General. "I want to congratulate You immediately on your appointment to this important and responsible post, on which much depends in our Organization. I hope that Your vast experience as a statesman and now on an interstate level, considering Your experience, including that as Minister of Defense, where you have done much for the development of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Kazakhstan, will serve to further strengthen the authority of the CSTO both on the international scene and within each of the member states of the Organization," the Russian military minister said.
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