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.
The teachers and cadets of the Russian Military Medical Academy named after S.M. Kirov are involved for the first time in a CSTO training in Kazakhstan
01.10.2022
The faculty and graduating cadets of the Kirov Russian Military Medical Academy are involved for the first time in a joint training of the Collective Security Treaty Organization Collective Forces in the Republic of Kazakhstan.
The tasks facing the group include joint actions with NBC protection units to detect and eliminate a particularly dangerous infection. The specialists will perform clinical diagnostics, provide first aid to the conditionally injured and evacuate them to a military field infection hospital. They will also conduct sanitary-epidemiological reconnaissance of the contaminated area. Participate in the organization and conduct of anti-epidemic measures, including the introduction of quarantine and the transfer of an infectious disease hospital to work in conditions of strict anti-epidemic regime.
In the course of joint fulfillment of combat training tasks on liquidating nidus of especially dangerous infection they will use the experience, gained by Russian specialists during the fight against new coronavirus infection in Italy and Serbia.
Skills and elements of cohesion with units of radiation, chemical and biological protection of the CSTO member states will be used in the training process of the academy, as well as in countering biological threats.
Earlier it was reported that the CSTO trainings in the Republic of Kazakhstan for the first time will work out the elimination of emergency situations of a biological nature.
The active phase of command-staff training of the CSTO Collective Rapid Reaction Forces "Interaction-2022", the special training "Search-2022" with forces and means of intelligence and "Echelon-2022" with logistics units will be held from 3 to 7 October at Kazakhstan's training ground "Matybulak".
Military contingents of the CSTO member states, task forces of the Joint Staff and the CSTO Secretariat, special forces from special units of internal affairs bodies (police), security agencies and special services, as well as authorized bodies for prevention and liquidation of emergencies will participate in the training.
It is planned that the total number of participants in the trainings in Kazakhstan will be more than 6,500 people and more than 850 units of military and special equipment, including aircraft, helicopters, and unmanned aerial vehicles. The core of the Russian contingent will be subunits of the Central Military District.
