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 Committee of Secretaries of the Security Council of the CSTO at a meeting in Bishkek on June 27 will discuss additional measures taken in the format of the Organization to combat international terrorism and extremism
24.06.2019
A meeting of the Committee of Secretaries of the Security Council of the Collective Security Treaty Organization will be held on June 27, 2019 in Bishkek, chaired by the Secretary of the Security Council of the Kyrgyz Republic Damir Sagynbayev. The meeting will be attended by the secretaries of the security councils of the CSTO member states and the Acting Secretary General of the Organization Valery Semerikov.
The CSSC members will discuss challenges and threats to collective security in the prevailing conditions, as well as additional measures to counter international terrorism and extremism in the CSTO format, which are implemented in accordance with the Decision of the CSTO Collective Security Council.
During the plenary session, it is planned to review and approve a number of draft decisions of the CSTO CSC, including the “On the List of additional measures aimed at reducing tensions in the Tajik-Afghan border area”, “On the collective action plan of the CSTO member states to implement the UN Global counter-terrorism strategy for 2019-2021”.
It is expected that the Plan of joint preparation of the CSTO collective security bodies and forces for the year 2020, the Plan of consultations of representatives of the CSTO member states on foreign policy, security and defense for the second half of 2019 — the first half of 2020, and the decision of the CSSC of the CSTO “On the Regulations for Informational Interaction of the crisis response center of the CSTO” was also adopted.
In total, the draft agenda of the CSSC of the CSTO includes 8 questions relating to practically all areas of the Organization.
The Collective Security Treaty (CST) was signed on May 15, 1992 in Tashkent. On May 14, 2002, the Collective Security Council at a session in Moscow decided to transform the mechanisms and cooperation structures of the CST member states into an international regional organization - the “Collective Security Treaty Organization”, giving it an appropriate status. September 18, 2003. The CSTO Charter entered into force. The Collective Security Treaty Organization includes: the Republic of Armenia, the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Russian Federation, and the Republic of Tajikistan.
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