New CSTO Secretary General may visit Belarus in February
New CSTO Secretary General Imangali Tasmagambetov may visit Belarus in February – as noted by State Secretary of Belarus’ Security Council Aleksandr Volfovich, BelTA reports
On January 10th in Moscow, on behalf of the Chairman of the CSTO Collective Security Council, President of Belarus Aleksandr Lukashenko, Aleksandr Volfovich introduced the new Secretary General to the leadership of the CSTO Secretariat, the CSTO Joint Staff, as well as permanent and plenipotentiary representatives of the CSTO member states.
Aleksandr Volfovich also held a bilateral meeting with Imangali Tasmagambetov. Following its results, he said, “Now, together with the CSTO Secretariat, a plan is being finalised to implement the decisions adopted at the November session of the Collective Security Council and to realise the priorities of Belarus’ chairmanship in the CSTO this year. This plan has already been submitted for approval to the CSTO member states (I think that in it will be agreed soon), and it was proposed to the newly appointed Secretary General to come to Belarus in February to approve this plan with the Chairman of the Collective Security Council, President of the Republic of Belarus Aleksandr Lukashenko. Imangali Tasmagambetov accepted the invitation.”
The parties tackled topical issues of international and regional security, shared views on the situation in the CSTO area of responsibility, discussed current challenges and threats in the East European, Central Asian and Caucasian regions of collective security, paying special attention to the implementation of the priority areas of the CSTO activities in 2023, which were put forward by Belarus as the chair of the CSTO. “These primarily concern the settlement of crisis situations, raising the prestige of the CSTO in the system of international organisations, the development of a crisis response system, collective peacekeeping forces and rapid reaction forces to solve problems in resolving conflict situations, and the development of an information and analytical component,” Aleksandr Volfovich explained.
