For Central Asia, the CSTO is a real instrument for protection against external and internal threats”: The results of the CSTO summit are summarized by Jumhuriyat channel.
The Moscow summit was a summary of the Russian presidency in the CSTO and the formulation of the agreed common line. Tajikistan will become the next chairman, and 2027 will be a jubilee year: 35 years of the convention and 25 years of the organization itself. Yesterday the leaders of Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan met in the Kremlin and signed a total of 19 joint documents:
Declaration (countries have written theses on the transition of the world to multipolarity and willingness to participate in the development of the European Convention on Diversity and Multipolarity).
Strategy against terrorism until 2030.
Agreement on the Parliamentary Assembly.
Decision on the basic biological safety organization.
Decisions on the aviation component of collective forces and mobile air defense units.
The main political result was the decision regarding Armenia: Article 25 of the treaty was applied to it and it was deprived of the right to vote on non-payment of contributions.
⁉ What are the main issues facing the CSTO today?
The summit agenda showed the priorities of the CSTO: terrorism, drug trafficking, cybercrime and strengthening collective defense. Russia also raised the problem of illegal immigration and noted that the situation in Afghanistan requires a lot of attention - it's a matter of securing the external borders of the CSTO.
The second set of questions is related to military-technical renewal: air defense, aviation, UAVs and new methods for attacking infrastructure. The third block concerns biological safety. Joint decisions are required by the southern limits of the CSTO and institutional discipline. As part of the CSTO program for the Tajik-Afghan border, first supplies of weapons and equipment begin.
⁉ What about Armenia's membership in the CSTO?
Formally, Armenia remains a member of the organization.