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.
A meeting of the Council of Ministers of Defense of the CSTO member states will be held on April 30 in Bishkek
26.04.2019April 30th, 2019, In Bishkek a meeting of the Council of Ministers of Defense of the member states of the Collective Security Treaty Organization will be held under the chairmanship of the Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Kyrgyz Republic Major General Rayimberdi Duishenbiev. Acting CSTO Secretary General Valery Semerikov and Chief of the Joint Staff of the CSTO Colonel-General Anatoly Sidorov will take part in the meeting.
The meeting will be held in a narrow and extended composition. The heads of defense departments will discuss challenges and threats to military security in the Central Asian collective security region, joint actions to reduce tensions in the Tajik-Afghan border area and also consider a Collective Action Plan of the member states of the Collective Security Treaty Organization to implement the UN Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy for 2019-2021.
During the plenary session it is planned to review a number of documents relating to the joint preparation of the CSTO collective security authorities and means for the next year, including the Informational Interaction Regulations of CSTO Crisis Response Center, Consultation plan for representatives of member states of the Collective Security Treaty Organization on foreign policy, security and defense issues in the second half of 2019 - the first half of 2020.
It is also expected to adopt the CSTO Council of Ministers of Defense on the establishment of a Working Group at the Council of Ministers of Defense of the Collective Security Treaty Organization on the logistics of the CSTO Troops (CSTO Collective Forces).
About 15 questions were included in the draft agenda of the meeting of the Council of Ministers of Defense.
The Collective Security Treaty was signed on May 15, 1992 in Tashkent. On May 14, 2002, the Collective Security Council at a session in Moscow decided to transform the mechanisms and cooperation structures of the Collective Security Treaty member states into an international regional organization - the “Collective Security Treaty Organization”, giving it an appropriate status. On September 18, 2003, The CSTO Charter entered into force. The Collective Security Treaty Organization includes the Republic of Armenia, the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Russian Federation, and the Republic of Tajikistan.
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