Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO)

Kazakh government is planning to expand cooperation between the Collective Security Treaty Organization and the UN counter-terrorism bodies to fight international terrorism and extremism. It is one of the priorities of Kazakhstan's work as a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council. Russia ...

MOSCOW, 19 April (BelTA) - The CSTO is concerned over the growing threat of the export of extremism and terrorism from Afghanistan into the CSTO area of responsibility, CSTO spokesman Vladimir Zainetdinov told BelTA following the joint meeting of the working group on Afghanistan at the CSTO ...

... the National Assembly of Belarus Vladimir Andreichenko will take part in events of the Interparliamentary Assembly of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS IPA) and the Parliamentary Assembly of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO PA), which will take place in Saint Petersburg, ...

Russia highly appreciates the solidarity shared by CSTO member states over the attack on Sergei Skripal and his daughter, said Russian Foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov, after talks with his Tajik counterpart, Sirodjidin Aslov, TASS reported. "We are grateful to our partners for close coordination in the UN, ...

MOSCOW, 4 April (BelTA) – Secretary General of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) Yuri Khachaturov and Secretary General of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Thomas Greminger met in Moscow on 3 April. During the meeting they expressed mutual ...

The CSTO is not authorized to interfere in Karabakh conflict, the former Armenian Defense Minister, Vagharshak Harutiunyan, told reporters on Wednesday. According to him, Karabakh conflict is not among the priorities for the CSTO. “The CSTO can interfere in case of direct aggression only or at the ...

MINSK, 2 April (BelTA) – A Belarusian delegation led by Nikolai Ovsyanko, Head of the International Security and Arms Control Department of the Central Office for International Diplomacy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, took part in consultations of experts of the Collective Security Treaty Organization ...

Russian Foreign Ministry organized a special briefing on Skripal case for CSTO ambassadors ... Russia's foreign ministry organized on Friday a briefing for ambassadors of the member states of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) on the incident with the poisoning of former Russian foreign ...

On March 16, the delegation of the RA NA Deputy Speaker, Head of the CSTO PA Observation Mission Eduard Sharmazanov met with the Chairman of the Legislative Assembly of Saint Petersburg Vyacheslav Makarov in Mariinsky Palace of Saint Petersburg. The sides highlighted the strategic ally ...

YEREVAN. – National Assembly (NA) of Armenia Vice Chairman Eduard Sharmazanov, who is on a working visit to Saint Petersburg, Russia, on Friday met with secretary-in-charge Pyotr Ryabukhin of the Collective Security Treaty Organization Parliamentary Assembly (CSTO PA). They underscored the ...

MOSCOW, 15 March (BelTA) – The CSTO Permanent Council highlighted the need to consolidate efforts of its member states in preserving the memory of the fallen during the Great Patriotic War at a meeting in Moscow on 15 March, BelTA learned from the press service of the Belarusian embassy in Russia ...

Nagorno-Karabakh region is not a member-state of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) and the organization will not render military support to Stepanakert (Khankendi), Anatoly Sidorov, Colonel-General, head of the CSTO Joint Staff, said during the Moscow-Yerevan-Astana-Bishkek-Minsk ...

Nagorno-Karabakh region is not a member-state of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) and the organization will not render military support to Stepanakert (Khankendi), Anatoly Sidorov, Colonel-General, head of the CSTO Joint Staff, said during the Moscow-Yerevan-Astana-Bishkek-Minsk ...

MINSK, 13 March (BelTA) – Belarus' Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Andrei Dapkiunas called for the intensification of cooperation between the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) and Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) against drugs during his speech at the high-level side event on ...

MaxMonitor media monitoring, analysis and measurement platform will release monthly reports on the online media coverage of NATO and CSTO in Armenia in the context of the two organizations' relations with the republic. The monitoring of 130 media websites during February showed that Armenian ...

Castle Square Tenants Organization held its Black History and Lunar New Year celebration on March 2 at Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology. (From) CSTO board president Ann Moy, executive director Deborah Backus, Boston city councilor Ed Flynn, Peng Chen. (Image courtesy of Valerie Li.).

MOSCOW, 6 March (BelTA) – The Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) is ready to participate in a peacemaking mission in Donbass, BelTA learned ... The CSTO peacekeeping forces can also be used in line with the decision of the United Nations Organization and can act upon the UN mandate.

MOSCOW, 6 March (BelTA) – No plans have been made to use the latest weapons recently revealed by President of Russia Vladimir Putin as part of army exercises of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), BelTA learned from Chief of the CSTO Joint Staff Anatoly Sidorov at a press conference ...

... Anatoly Tsyganok, head of the Center of Military Prognosis, Russian military expert, told Armenian News-NEWS.am correspondent. So, according to him, if someone attacks any of the CSTO member countries, let's say Armenia, Moscow will react to this and take appropriate measures to protect its allies.

BISHKEK (TCA) — The Russia-led Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) is pushing legalization of private military and security companies. The move, if successful and replicated by Russia and other CSTO member states, will potentially enable citizens of Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, ...

The Secretariat of the Collective Security Treaty Organization's (CSTO) Parliamentary Assembly is currently examining a bill on private military and security organizations (Private Military Companies—PMC) (RIA Novosti, February 5). If adopted inside the Moscow-led alliance, the individual CSTO member ...

Belarus cannot partake in the UN peacekeeping mission in Donbas because it is a member of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), Ukrainian Deputy Foreign Minister Olena Zerkal said on Channel 5 on February 19. “As far as I know, Belarus remains a CSTO member country. Considering ...

MINSK, February 18. /TASS/. The military-political cooperation in the framework of the Union State and the post-Soviet military block, the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), is a priority for Belarus, the country's Defense Ministry said on Sunday. "We always tell the Western countries that Russia is our strategic ...

Last year, the country chaired in the Collective Security Treaty Organization. “We pressed through a number of measures to beef up the armed forces of the CSTO countries, enhance military and technical cooperation, strengthen the positions in the world. I must tell you, that all our efforts notwithstanding, ...

By the order of the Chairman of the Collective Security Treaty Organization Parliamentary Assembly (CSTO PA), Vyacheslav Volodin, the Deputy Speaker of the Armenian National Assembly Eduard Sharmazanov was appointed Head of the CSTO PA Observation Mission in the elections of the President of ...

Citing the data of the CSTO Analytical Association, Valery Semerikov stated that the conflict potential in the CSTO's zone of responsibility is increasing. “Our analysts evaluate the situation in Eurasia as a crisis one,” he said. Speaking about the level of security in Eurasia, most experts (about 52%) say it is at ...

MOSCOW, February 9. /TASS/. Russia works with the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) member countries in view of a possible terrorist threat from the Afghan direction, Russian President's Special Envoy for Afghanistan Zamir Kabulov said in an interview with TASS on Thursday. "Together with Central Asian ...

The US has joined the Channel anti-drug operation conducted by the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), the organization's Deputy Secretary General Valery Semerikov said ... The CSTO deputy secretary general elaborated that since the start of the operation, more than 360 tonnes of drugs had been seized.

The session of the Council of the Collective Security Treaty Organization Parliamentary Assembly (CSTO PA) kicked off in Saint Petersburg, Russia on Thursday in participation of Speaker of the Armenian National Assembly Ara Babloyan. CSTO Secretary General Yuri Khachaturov, as well as the speakers ...

MINSK, 12 April (BelTA) – Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces, First Deputy Defense Minister of Belarus, Major-General Oleg Belokonev will take part in the session of the Military Committee of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) in Astana, Kazakhstan on 13 April, the Defense ...

MINSK, 14 April (BelTA) - The Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) is convening an emergency meeting on 14 April of the CSTO ... On the initiative of the CSTO Secretary General and the Russian Federation, the CSTO is convening an emergency meeting of the CSTO Permanent Council over ...

MOSCOW, 13 April (BelTA) – The Military Committee of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) discussed how joint combat training exercises will be held this year during a session held in Astana, Kazakhstan on 13 April and chaired by First Deputy Defense Minister, Chief of the General Staff of ...

The mission members stressed the democratic electoral processes in the CSTO member states, while Sharmazanov pointed to the imperative of active and unbiased monitoring of the elections by the mission. The Permanent Representative of the RA National Assembly to the IPA CIS Hayk Chilingaryan ...

He noted that a CSTO agreement is signed with Armenia, and, correspondingly, the CSTO has certain commitments to Yerevan. “Armenian citizens should be rest assured that in case of a threat, the CSTO will not leave them in danger,” Anatoly Sidorov added. The residents of Armenia's Ohanavan village ...

MOSCOW, 27 February (BelTA) – The Permanent Council of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) looked into the draft list of topics for ... a draft plan for consultations between representatives of the CSTO member states on matters of foreign policy, security, and defense in H2 2018 – H1 2019.