On 24 April 2024, in Moscow, at the CSTO Secretariat consultations of the CSTO member states under the chairmanship of the Republic of Kazakhstan on the theme: "On topical issues of arms control, disarmament and non-proliferation" took place.
From 1 to 23 April 2024, the Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation hosted the regular IX Training Courses of the CSTO member states for senior staff and leading specialists of defense departments, law enforcement agencies, security council apparatuses, security agencies and special services, as well as bodies authorized to prevent and eliminate emergency situations.
On 22 April 2024, the CSTO Secretariat hosted a working meeting between the Deputy Secretary General of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, Samat Ordabaev, and the Special Representative of the UN Secretary General for Central Asia, Head of the UN Regional Centre for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia (UNRCCA), Kakha Imnadze.
The heads of the special police units of the CSTO member states and the Rosgvardia allocated to the CSTO Peacekeeping Forces in Yekaterinburg held a training and methodical gathering as part of the exercise “The Indestructible Brotherhood -2018”
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During the gathering, the special unit commanders exchanged experience of participation in international peacekeeping missions, discussed improving the training methods for police units, as well as developing common approaches and views on the use of special police units and Rosgvardia of the CSTO member states as part of the Collective Peacekeeping Forces - combat (operational-service) tasks.
The Deputy Secretary General of the CSTO, Piotr Tsikhanouski, in his speech to the participants of the meeting, noted that such an event was held for the first time. “This is a new page in the history of the CSTO. The composition of the Collective Peacekeeping Forces of the CSTO on the “Indestructible Brotherhood - 2018” exercise includes various units - military, police, Rosgvardiya, and the Ministry of Emergency Situations, as well as observers from international organizations such as the UN International Committee of the Red Cross. Here at the assembly you are the commanding staff of special units. We believe that today it is the main contingent that is primarily in demand in peacekeeping operations conducted under the auspices of the UN Security Council, ”said the Deputy Secretary General of the CSTO.
The military adviser, the UN Assistant Secretary General for Peacekeeping Operations, Lieutenant General Carlos Umberto Loyta (Uruguay), who arrived in the Sverdlovsk region and the city of Yekaterinburg to observe the active phase of the “Indestructible Brotherhood - 2018” exercise, participated in the training camp.
He said that the interaction between the two international organizations - the UN and the CSTO in the field of peacemaking is developing and now requires the development of joint legislative, logistical and operational bases; a “Road Map” has already been prepared. “We are ready to provide expert advice in this direction, based on practical activities. And we are ready to work with the CSTO in various models of partnership in such an important area as peacemaking, ”said Carlos Lloth.
Deputy Secretary General of the CSTO Piotr Tsikhanouski noted that the colleagues from the UN are great specialists in the field of peacekeeping operations, their military and police component and have extensive practical experience. He suggested that the participants in the gathering should not miss the opportunity to get answers from the UN specialists to all their questions.
The interaction of the commanding staff of the special units of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (Police / Rosgvardia) of the CSTO member states and the specialists of the UN peacekeeping operations in the form of a “round table” was the final event of the training and methodological gathering.
A joint exercise with the CSTO “Indestructible Brotherhood-2018” peacekeeping forces takes place in the Sverdlovsk region from October 30 to November 2. The exercise involves military contingents from six CSTO member states, operational teams of the Joint Staff and the CSTO Secretariat, the Rosgvardiya, police (police) forces and Civil Defense and Emergencies.
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