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.
On the meeting of CSTO Secretary General Imangali Tasmagambetov with the Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov
08.02.2024
On 7 February, the CSTO Secretary General Imangali Tasmagambetov met with the Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.
They discussed topical issues of the Organization's activities, the progress in implementing the decisions of the session of the Collective Security Council held in Minsk on 23 November 2023, as well as preparations for the upcoming CSTO Ministerial Council meeting in June this year.
Much attention was paid to the issues of integrating the CSTO's collective peacekeeping potential into the UN peacekeeping activities, the current results of the implementation of the Special Interstate Policy for strengthening sections of the Tajik-Afghan Border, as well as the demarcation and delimitation of the State border between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.
At the end of the meeting, Imangali Tasmagambetov presented awards to the Russian Foreign Ministry officials of the Collective Security Treaty Organization.
For his significant contribution to strengthening inter-parliamentary cooperation in the CSTO format, Sergey Lavrov awarded a badge of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation "For Interaction" Sergey Pospelov, the Executive Secretary of the CSTO Parliamentary Assembly and Head of the Secretariat of the CSTO Parliamentary Assembly.
