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 CSTO Secretariat representatives spoke at the annual OSCE Counter-Terrorism Conference
22.04.2021
The CSTO Secretariat representatives took part in the annual OSCE Counter-Terrorism Conference, which took place on April 20 - 21, 2021, under the Swedish chairmanship with the support of the OSCE Transnational Threats Department. The event was held in the format of a videoconferencing. More than 500 participants were registered for this event. A wide range of issues were considered to strengthen an integrated approach in preventing and countering terrorism, violent extremism and radicalization leading to terrorism (VERLT) in a changing environment”.
Representatives of the Republic of Armenia, the Kyrgyz Republic, and the Russian Federation took an active part in the conference. The CSTO Secretariat representatives spoke during Session II, where they discussed the issue of tools for preventing terrorism and strengthening an integrated approach to preventing and countering terrorism, violent extremism and radicalization that lead to terrorism on the Internet. In the speech, it was noted that based on the experience gained during the Organization's ongoing operation since 2009 to counter crimes in the information and communication environment, it was concluded that the problem of countering terrorism in this area was divided into two components:
– combating extremist content, the so-called blocking internet sources
– counterpropaganda, which makes it possible to challenge the basic tenets of jihadist ideology.
Due to the fact that the effect of blocking individual terrorist accounts does not bring the desired effect, the priority is given to the need to focus efforts on effective counterpropaganda of terrorist ideas on the Internet, which should differ in the stage of user involvement.
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The CSTO Press Secretary Vladimir Zaynetdinov
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