..., Syria, Libya, and recently Afghanistan, the rising Rest with the primacy of the Sino-Russian bloc is prone to endure for the coming decades or so
Kazakhstan: a key player and a logistic hub for China’s Belt and Road Initiative, a member of the Russia-led Eurasian Economic Union and the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), the largest country in Central Asia that has practised a multi-vector foreign policy with ease, the most advanced in terms of political and economic reforms among other countries in Central Asia, and often the main avenue for negotiations on important topics on the international ...
... exclusive here, but the latter appears to be as less effective as compared to bilateralism.
In 1992, the representatives of Russia, Armenia and the four Central Asian states met in Tashkent, where the Collective Security Treaty was signed. This treaty would have bound them to a ... ... security architecture based on joint military exercises, supplies of modern weapons and equipment of military bases. However, the CSTO has been criticized throughout the years for having missed some opportunities of intervention, like during the 2010 Osh protests ...
... full-fledged war is unlikely either. As for the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), there is little chance of it changing its stance with regard to the situation... ... ceasefire conditions. The CSTO will continue to conduct regular military exercises in Central Asia and will also develop its crisis response mechanisms.
In October 2017,... ... neighbours and will attempt to implement peaceful policies towards them, as well as to Russia, which is, among other things, its largest security partner.
Tensions between...
... aggravation in Central Asia is now measured not only by the situation in Afghanistan, which has constituted a threat to neighboring countries over the past 20 years. A new factor needs to be reckoned with — IS, which is now joined by citizens from Central Asia and Russia. In this context, experts expect possible aggravations once these people come back home. Vladimir Putin mentioned combat against IS in his speech at the CSTO summit, which was largely focused on the Syrian crisis and creation of an
international anti-terrorist coalition
. Previously, in November 2014, CSTO Secretary General Nikolay Bordyuzha said that the international anti-terrorist coalition that was ...
... Central-Asian sectors, since each has unique regional features, processes and approach to unfolding events. There is something to this reasoning,
but the CSTO allies all count on Russian participation to combat the threats faced
. This is true of Belarus, Central Asia, and also Armenia. Russia, on the other hand, while not limiting the CSTO to a mere pretext for tackling current and future security issues, can hardly be expected to assent to segmenting the security space into individual sectors. Accepting this approach would put an end to the years-long efforts to shape the CSTO into ...
