The CSTO Secretary General Imangali Tasmagambetov told RIA Novosti, commenting on the terrorist attack in “Crocus City Hall” that terrorism was used in hybrid warfare, provoked inter-ethnic and inter-religious discord, so the CSTO member states needed tools to counter this phenomenon.
In the period from 12 to 13 March 2024, in the Collective Security Treaty Organization, a strategic command and staff training is being conducted under the supervision of Colonel-General Andrei Serdyukov, Chief of the Joint Staff, during which issues related to stabilizing the situation in the Central Asian region of collective security in the context of the growing threat of a crisis situation are being worked out.
Imangali Tasmagambetov - on the relations between the Collective Security Treaty Organization and the Armenian leadership, the CSTO peacekeeping work and the security situation in Eurasia.
On 11 March 2024, the CSTO Secretariat hosted a round table on "Cooperation in the Information and Analytical Sphere to Ensure Collective Security" on the occasion of the Tajik Press Day. The event was attended by the Head of the Department for the Study of Regional Security Problems of the Strategic Research Centre under the President of the Republic of Tajikistan, Sayhamid Sharifzoda, the Permanent Representative of the Republic of Tajikistan to the CSTO, Khasan Sultonov, and representatives of the Tajik media.
The CSTO Secretary General Stanislav Zas: The CSTO has not discussed sending troops to Ukraine
16.05.2022The CSTO says it has not discussed sending troops to Ukraine.
The CSTO Secretary General Zas: the issue of participation of CSTO Forces in the special operation in Ukraine has not been discussed.
According to Zas, the Russian President has informed his colleagues about the special operation in Ukraine in detail, but the issue of the participation of the CSTO Collective Forces in the special operation has not been raised.
According to the Secretary General of the Organization Stanislav Zas, the issue of participation of the CSTO Collective Forces in the special operation in Ukraine was not discussed at the summit of the Organization on May 16.
"In the course of the meeting, the Russian President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin informed his colleagues in great detail about the special military operation being conducted by the Russian Federation in Ukraine. The question of any participation or involvement of the CSTO in this special military operation was not raised or discussed," he said.
The CSTO leaders declared their readiness to cooperate with NATO.
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The summit of the CSTO leaders, timed to the 30th anniversary of the Collective Security Treaty and the 20th anniversary of the Organization, was held in Moscow, on May 16. The summit was attended by the Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, the Presidents of the Republic of Belarus and the Republic of Kazakhstan Alexander Lukashenko and Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, the Heads of the Kyrgyz Republic and the Republic of Tajikistan Sadyr Japarov and Emomali Rakhmon, and the Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Following the summit, the leaders issued a joint statement expressing their readiness to establish practical cooperation with NATO to "reduce tensions on the continent”. The CSTO leaders stressed that they were concerned about the situation on the external borders and expressed their readiness to protect borders.
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