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.
At the CSTO Joint Staff, consultations on the Plan for joint training of command and control bodies and formations of the assets of the collective security system for 2022 were held via videoconferencing
27.01.2021
In the period from 26 to 27 January, on the basis of the Joint Staff of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, consultations to consider a draft Plan for joint training of command and control bodies and formations of the assets of the CSTO collective security system for 2022 were held via videoconferencing.
The event was held under the general supervision of the Deputy Head of the CSTO Joint Staff, Major General Sergey Kuprik. Representatives of interested ministries and departments of the Republic of Armenia, the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Russian Federation, the Republic of Tajikistan, the Secretariat and the Joint Staff of the CSTO took part in the event via videoconferencing.
In the course of the meeting, command and staff, special and joint trainings were discussed with the assets of reconnaissance, Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics, the Collective Rapid Reaction Forces, the Collective Air Forces, the CSTO Peacekeeping Forces, as well as with the Collective Rapid Deployment Forces of the Central Asian region.
The issues of conducting trainings for the operational staff of the CSTO Crisis Response Center and national bodies authorized to interact with it, joint training of military personnel and international military cooperation with states that are not CSTO member states and other international organizations were also considered.
“The measures envisaged by the Plan are aimed at increasing the readiness of the assets of the CSTO collective security system to carry out tasks as intended. The joint fruitful work made it possible to develop agreed positions on all the issues under consideration. All proposals and comments received on the draft Plan from the ministries and departments of the CSTO member states were discussed, the content of the document was finalized, "Major General Sergey Kuprik noted, summing up the results.
The CSTO Joint Staff will sent the agreed draft document for consideration to the CSTO Permanent Council.
