Meeting with the CSTO Secretary General

Nur-Sultan, March 10, 2021 - Deputy Prime Minister – Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan Mukhtar Tileuberdi had a meeting with the Secretary General of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, Stanislav Zas.

During the meeting, the sides exchanged views on the current work of the CSTO, discussed a wide range of issues in all key areas of the Organization's activities.

The Minister accepted the invitation to the next meeting of the CSTO Council of Ministers of Foreign Affairs to be held in Dushanbe in May this year.

The parties expressed their readiness to cooperate in further strengthening the Organization.

The CSTO was established in 2002 and is an international regional organization, which, along with Kazakhstan, includes Armenia, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Tajikistan. Currently, the CSTO is chaired by Tajikistan. The next session of the CSTO Collective Security Council will be held in the fourth quarter of 2021 in Tajikistan.

The representative of Belarus Stanislav Zas was appointed to the post of the CSTO Secretary General for the period from January 1, 2020 to December 31, 2022.