On 13 November 2023, the XVI meeting of the Council of the Collective Security Treaty Organization's Consultative Coordination Centre for Responding to Computer Incidents (CSTO CCC) was held in Moscow, with the participation of leading experts and representatives of the national authorized bodies for Responding to Computer Incidents of the CSTO member states.
A meeting of the CSTO Collective Security Council was held in Minsk on 23 November.
The heads of states have discussed in detail current problems of international and regional security and the main results of the activities of the CSTO during the inter-sessional period.
A meeting of the heads of the Collective Security Treaty Organization member states under the chairmanship of the President of the Republic of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko has begun in Minsk in the narrow format.
On 22 November 2023, in Minsk, a joint meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers, the Council of Defense Ministers and the Committee of Secretaries of the Security Councils of the CSTO was held. Representatives of the Republic of Armenia did not take part in the meeting.
In accordance with the Action Plan for the implementation of the decisions of the November 20-22 session of the CSTO CSC and the fulfilment of the priority areas of the Organization’s activities, two documents relevant to the stabilization of the situation in the South Caucasus have been developed so far under the chairmanship of the Republic of Belarus.
The CSTO Secretary General Imangali Tasmagambetov hold video-conference with the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres
06.11.2023
On November 6, 2023 the Secretary General of the Collective Security Treaty Organization Imangali Tasmagambetov had a conversation (via videoconference) with the Secretary General of the United Nations António Guterres.
A wide range of issues of interaction between the CSTO Secretariat and the UN Secretariat was discussed. In particular, the importance of concerted international steps to reduce strategic security risks through preventive regional activities was emphasized.
Attention was paid to the further development of working contacts between the CSTO Secretariat and relevant UN bodies on the issues of countering terrorism, drug trafficking, cross-border crime, illegal migration, as well as cooperation in the field of peacekeeping. The importance of combating the spread of terrorist ideology and propaganda as well as combining efforts in the field of information security was stressed.
It was agreed to continue contacts.
