COLLECTIVE SECURITY TREATY ORGANIZATION
Today, tremendous efforts are taken to ensure international security and stability issues. This is a challenge not only for the Central Asian region, but also for the entire international community.
One of the important tools for interacting and coordinating activities to ensure collective security in our region is the Collective Security Treaty Organization.
The Organization was founded in 2002 on the basis of the Collective Security Treaty of May 15, 1992. The principal goals of the Organization are strengthening of peace, international and regional security and stability, and protection of independence on a collective basis, territorial integrity and sovereignty of the Member States.
The CSTO members are the Republic of Armenia, the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Russian Federation and the Republic of Tajikistan.
CSTO bodies:
- Collective Security Council;
- Council of Foreign Ministers;
- Council of Defence Ministers;
- Committee of Secretaries of Security Councils;
- Permanent advice.
Permanent working bodies are the Secretariat and the Joint Headquarters of the CSTO. The body of inter-parliamentary cooperation is the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization.
The main activities of the Organization are military and military-technical (military-economic) cooperation. The parties coordinate and unite their efforts in the fight against international terrorism and extremism, illicit trafficking in narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances, weapons, organized transnational crime, illegal migration and other threats to the security of the Organization's member states.
Within the framework of the Organization, a collective security system has been formed, which includes coalition and regional groups of forces, peacekeeping forces, special forces of law enforcement agencies and special services, as well as bodies of the Ministry of Emergencies. In order to improve and develop the combat training of these units, as well as to work out the mechanisms of combat coordination, various joint exercises are carried out on a planned basis.
From January 1 to December 31, 2024, the Republic of Kazakhstan presides over the CSTO. During the chairmanship of the Organization, Kazakhstan will concentrate on the most relevant and demanded statutory areas of the CSTO. In particular, countering terrorism, drug and arms trafficking, information crimes, as well as eliminating the consequences of emergencies. Kazakhstan also plans to develop cooperation between the CSTO and the UN and a number of regional organizations, including the CIS and the SCO.
In general, the Republic of Kazakhstan consistently advocates the creation of conditions enabling to counteract new threats and challenges on the basis of international law and ensure early warning and prevention of emerging threats, and eradicate their root-causes.