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 Joint Staff, an online meeting of the representatives of the national bodies of the CSTO member states was held to interact with the Crisis Response Center
04.03.2021
On March 3, 2021, a meeting was held at the CSTO Joint Staff with representatives of the national authorities of the Organization's member states authorized to interact with the CSTO Crisis Response Center.
The event was held under the general supervision of the Deputy Chief of the CSTO Joint Staff, Major General Sergei Kuprik. The CSTO Crisis Response Center, located in Moscow, was attended by representatives of the Joint Staff and the Secretariat of the Organization, the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Russian Emergency Ministry, the Federal Guard Service of the Russian Federation, and the CIS Council of Border Troop Commanders.
The heads and representatives of the leadership of the Center for Operational Management of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Armenia, the Central Command Post of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus, the Central Command Post of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Crisis Response Center of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Kyrgyz Republic, the National Center for Defense Control of the Russian Federation, the Control Center of the Operational Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Tajikistan took part in the meeting via videoconferencing.
In his welcoming speech, the head of the CSTO Joint Staff, Colonel-General Anatoly Sidorov, said that the format of such meetings provided an opportunity to discuss topical issues and determine areas for further work on the development of the system of interstate information interaction within the Organization. “The purpose of the meeting is to improve information interaction between the CSTO Crisis Response Center and the national bodies authorized to interact with it,” Colonel-General Anatoly Sidorov said.
In the course of the meeting, the issue of organizing advanced training for officials of the CSTO Joint Staff and national bodies authorized to interact with the CSTO Crisis Response Center was considered.
The participants of the meeting discussed topical issues of the crisis response system and outlined the main directions for improving information interaction in the CSTO format.
