On 24 April 2024, in Moscow, at the CSTO Secretariat consultations of the CSTO member states under the chairmanship of the Republic of Kazakhstan on the theme: "On topical issues of arms control, disarmament and non-proliferation" took place.
From 1 to 23 April 2024, the Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation hosted the regular IX Training Courses of the CSTO member states for senior staff and leading specialists of defense departments, law enforcement agencies, security council apparatuses, security agencies and special services, as well as bodies authorized to prevent and eliminate emergency situations.
On 22 April 2024, the CSTO Secretariat hosted a working meeting between the Deputy Secretary General of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, Samat Ordabaev, and the Special Representative of the UN Secretary General for Central Asia, Head of the UN Regional Centre for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia (UNRCCA), Kakha Imnadze.
The CSTO Collective Security Council Chairman, Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan, met in Yerevan with the Organization's Secretary General Stanislav Zas and approved his submitted Plan for implementation of CSTO session decisions
23.12.2021
On December 23, this year, the CSTO Secretary General Stanislav Zas met in Yerevan with the Chairman of the CSTO Collective Security Council, Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia, Nikol Pashinyan. Zas arrived in the Republic of Armenia to meet with the highest political and defense establishments of the country and discuss the situation in the CSTO area of responsibility.
The Armenian Prime Minister welcomed the CSTO Secretary General to Yerevan and noted that his visit was a good opportunity to discuss the current situation in the CSTO region, as well as to sum up the results of CSTO activities in 2021. "We will also talk about what plans and challenges we have in 2022, about the further development of the Organization's mechanisms, about what unresolved issues we have in this sense. Of course, we will also talk about the current situation in the region and in the area of the Collective Security Treaty Organization's responsibility. It is also very important, and I would be interested to hear your assessments on that issue," Nikol Pashinyan said.
Stanislav Zas thanked for the meeting and informed that the main plan document of the CSTO activities for the next year had been elaborated. "This is the Action Plan for the implementation of the decisions of the September (2021) session of the CSTO Collective Security Council and the implementation of the CSTO priority activities during the Republic of Armenia's presidency. We have agreed it with all our states. I would like to note that all initiatives and proposals which were put forward during the fall meeting in Dushanbe by the Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Ministers of Defense and the heads of the states were reflected in the Plan. It also reflects all the priorities you announced during the September session in Dushanbe. I.e. our states have confirmed that they were ready to work next year according to the priorities that were announced, including the Armenian presidency," the CSTO Secretary General Stanislav Zas noted.
During the meeting Nikol Pashinyan approved the CSTO Secretary General's Action Plan to implement decisions of the September (2021) session of the CSTO Collective Security Council and the implementation of the CSTO priority activities during the Republic of Armenia's presidency.
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