The 23rd meeting of the Military Committee on military cooperation development among the CSTO member states under the supervision of the Chairman of the Military Committee, Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation - First Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, Army General Valery Gerasimov, took place today via videoconferencing.
From April 8 to 11, 2024, the XXI International Seminar-Meeting on Combined Martial Arts with the heads of combat and physical training of the security ministries and agencies of the CSTO member states took place at the Park Hotel "Horizon", Odintsovo District, Moscow Region.
The event was addressed by Gennady Troislit, the Deputy Head of the Organizational and Planning Department of the CSTO Secretariat, and Oleg Ufimtsev, the President of the Russian Federation of Combined Martial Arts.
The CSTO Council of Foreign Ministers was held via videoconferencing. Foreign ministers have discussed topical security issues and cooperation with the UN in the field of peacekeeping
01.12.2020
On December 1, this year, under the chairmanship of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergei Lavrov, a regular meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, with the participation of the CSTO Secretary General Stanislav Zas, was held via videoconferencing,
An exchange of views took place on topical security issues and increasing the efficiency of the CSTO, practical aspects of strengthening interaction between member states in the format of the Organization and in the international arena, on cooperation between the CSTO and the UN, including within the framework of peacekeeping activities under the auspices of the UN. Jean-Paul Lacroix, the UN Deputy Secretary General for Peacekeeping Operations, addressed the CSTO Ministerial Council members with a video message.
Chairman of the CSTO Council of Foreign Ministers Sergey Lavrov informed his colleagues about the results of the Russian chairmanship in the Organization in 2019-2020.
The ministers presented assessments of the state and prospects for the development of the international and regional situation and its impact on stability in the CSTO space.
A number of documents and political statements were approved, which will be submitted for consideration and approval to the heads of the CSTO member states in the course of the upcoming on December 2, this year, sessions of the Organization's Collective Security Council, including the draft Declaration of the Collective Security Council and the Statement on the formation of a just and sustainable world order.
At ministerial level of the CSTO member states, a Joint Statement "On the Occasion of the 75th Anniversary of the End of the World War II" and A Joint Statement a Joint Statement of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the CSTO member states "On the Situation in Afghanistan" were adopted.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Tajikistan, Sirojiddin Mukhriddin, presented the priority directions of the Organization's activities during the chairmanship of the Republic of Tajikistan in the CSTO (in the course of the session of the CSTO Collective Security Council on December 2, this year, the rotation of the chairmanship is transferred from Russia to the Republic of Tajikistan).
The next meeting of the CSTO Council of Foreign Ministers is planned to be held in May 2021 in Dushanbe.
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