A meeting of the Working Group of the Coordination Council of Heads of Competent Authorities on Combating Illicit Drug Trafficking (CCHN) on organizing international anti-drug operations within the CSTO framework was held in Aktau, Republic of Kazakhstan.
The Open International Youth Sambo Festival of National Teams of the CSTO Member States was held at the International Sambo Center in Moscow.
On August 17–19, at the invitation of Colonel General Alexander Manilov, Chairman of the Coordination Service of the Council of Border Troops Commanders of the CIS, a delegation of the CSTO Joint Staff headed by Colonel General Andrey Serdyukov took part in international events held in the area of responsibility of the Border Directorate of the Russian Federal Security Service for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region.
On August 14, consultations were held via videoconference at the CSTO Joint Staff with representatives of relevant ministries and agencies of the CSTO member states on organizing joint training activities for command and control bodies and formations of the CSTO collective security system in 2027.
The CSTO Deputy Secretary General Piotr Tsikhanouski met with the President of the International Committee of the Red Cross
01.12.2018On November 30, 2018, the Deputy Secretary General of the CSTO Piotr Tsikhanouski took part in the International Conference on International Humanitarian Law: "The 150th anniversary of the St. Petersburg Declaration on the abolition of certain explosive shells during the war: new contexts, former significance" organized by the International Committee of the Red Cross and the Inter-Parliamentary Assembly of States Parties to the Commonwealth of Independent States in St. Petersburg.
In his speech at the plenary meeting, Piotr Tsikhanouski stressed the importance and timeliness of the conference, described the level of interaction between the ICRC and the CSTO Secretariat, and also drew attention to the need to establish close cooperation between the ICRC and the CSTO itself in areas of mutual interest.
A working meeting between Piotr Tsikhanouski and ICRC President Peter Mauer took place on the “margins” of the conference, during which there was a substantive dialogue on humanitarian issues relevant to both organizations, based on which mutual interest was expressed in improving the mechanism of interaction between the CSTO and the ICRC on compliance with the provisions of international humanitarian law in armed conflicts and emergency situations.
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