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.
In Minsk, the Defense Minister of the Republic of Belarus Viktor Khrenin addressed a meeting of heads of international military cooperation units of the armed forces of the CSTO member states
01.03.2023
March 1, Minsk /BELTA/. BElTA correspondent reports that the Republic of Belarus views the CSTO as a guarantor of international and regional security, This was stated by the Defense Minister Viktor Khrenin during the working meeting of the heads of international military cooperation units of the Armed Forces of the CSTO member states.
As the Minister of Defense noted, the event was attended by those officials who were directly responsible for shaping the external agenda of each of the defense agencies of the CSTO states. "The Republic of Belarus views the Collective Security Treaty Organization as a guarantor of international and regional security, stability, as well as the collective protection of the independence and territorial integrity and sovereignty of the CSTO member states. I am convinced that this event is a unique opportunity to establish closer contacts. In addition, it will make it possible to discuss existing problems both on the internal and external levels and to discuss ways to solve them using the potential of the CSTO," the Minister said.
Viktor Khrenin added that it was equally important to develop common approaches aimed at the development and strengthening of the military component, to create conditions for the organization to become stronger and more united. The Minister of Defense emphasized that the Organization as a whole and the majority of its members had recently faced unprecedented pressure.
https://www.belta.by/society/view/hrenin-belarus-rassmatrivaet-odkb-v-kachestve-garanta-mezhdunarodn...
