The Caspian Sea is under threat": Korochenko on American pressure and the CSTO forum.
Moscow hosts the International Forum for Collective Security. The event brought together representatives of the CSTO authorities, international organizations and leading experts on one platform.
Igor Korochenko, director of the Center for the Analysis of the World Trade in Arms, spoke in an interview with NEWS.ru about what challenges the CSTO is facing today and how its members should respond to them.
— Igor Yurievich, how do you assess the importance of the International Forum for Collective Security?
"As the ministers who spoke on this platform pointed out, today the global storm is increasing and the old world order is collapsing.
New outlines have not yet been defined, therefore, within the framework of collective security, both through the CSTO and possibly also in the CSTO+ format, key issues are being considered: how to ensure sustainable and progressive development, avoid war, which mechanisms can be effective.
This is the main value of such events. Moreover, the current forum is preceded by a meeting of the CSTO Collective Security Council at the level of heads of state, where, of course, certain important decisions will be made.
- There is an opinion that the creation of a large Eurasian security outline will be a kind of provocation for the remaining military-political blocs. Will this, in your opinion, lead to an escalation of tension in the world?
- I think not. With similar steps we solve our specific pragmatic problems. First of all, we are talking about CSTO+ - this, one might say, is the post-Soviet space: in any case, the regions of Central Asia and the South Caucasus.
The main thing for us is that non-regional players will not appear here.
For example, the recent statement by the United States, which wants to influence the Caspian Sea from the point of view of the possibility of transferring certain cargoes to Iran and damaging them, is a very serious challenge, a threat.