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 question of inviting representatives of the ICRC to trainings with the CSTO Peacekeeping Forces “Indestructible Brotherhood-2019” on the territory of Tajikistan in October of this year was considered
24.04.2019
On April 24, 2019 a working meeting of the Acting CSTO Secretary General Valery Semerikov with Vice President of the International Committee of the Red Cross Gilles Carbonnier was held on the VIII Moscow Conference on International Security in Moscow.
Deputy Secretary General of the CSTO Piotr Tsikhanouski, Head of the ICRC Regional Delegation to the Russian Federation, Belarus and Moldova Magne Barth, Operational Coordinator of the Regional Operations Department in Europe and Central Asia Eric Daniel Bunskog, other representatives of the ICRC, and also the staff of the CSTO Secretariat took part in the working meeting.
A constructive exchange of views on issues relating to the state and further development of partnerships and mutually beneficial relations between the CSTO Secretariat and the ICRC took place.
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The question of inviting representatives of the ICRC to trainings with the CSTO Peacekeeping Forces “Indestructible Brotherhood-2019” on the territory of Tajikistan in October of this year was considered.
One of the important results is the confirmation of mutual interest in moving cooperation between the CSTO and the ICRC to a higher level.
