On October 30, 2024, the CSTO Secretary General Imangali Tasmagambetov met with Belarusian Foreign Minister Maxim Ryzhenkov in Minsk. The CSTO Secretary General arrived in Minsk to participate in the II Minsk International Conference on Eurasian Security.
The subregional anti-drug operation “Kanal-Avangard” was carried out in the territory of CSTO member states in order to suppress the flow of drugs, their precursors and analogues and new psychoactive and potent substances into the CSTO region of responsibility, to neutralize international transnational drug groups and to eliminate clandestine drug production and undermine the economic foundations of the drug business, including the legalization of drug profits.
Consultations on "Creating Conditions for the Involvement of the CSTO Peacekeeping Potential in the UN Peacekeeping Operations" were held in Moscow
11.10.2022
On October 11, 2022, Moscow hosted consultations of representatives of the Collective Security Treaty Organization member states on "Creating Conditions for the Involvement of the CSTO Peacekeeping Potential in the UN Peacekeeping Operations”.
The CSTO Deputy Secretary General Samat Ordabaev, authorized representatives to the CSTO, experts from interested ministries and agencies of the CSTO member states, employees of embassies of the member states and the Organization Secretariat, as well as experts from the UN Secretariat participated in the event (via videoconferencing).
In the course of consultations, approaches to the functions, tasks and powers of the coordinating state, prospects for the CSTO CPF involvement in the UN peacekeeping operations, taking into account the existing experience in this area, were discussed. The importance of CSTO's effective participation in global peacekeeping efforts was emphasized.
The consultations confirmed a high degree of convergence in the approaches of the CSTO member states and their focus on further strengthening cooperation with the UN in peacekeeping.
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CSTO Press Secretary Vladimir Zaynetdinov
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