... organizations of the former Soviet Union? Perhaps, playing this issue up is just the mass media’s attempt to at least somehow comment on these sessions that otherwise wouldn’t be of any interest to the public?
The reluctance of Russia’s CSTO and EEU allies to support Moscow on such issues as the Su-24 incident and FTA with Ukraine not only at the level of these organizations’ collective declarations, but also at the level of the member countries’ individual statements undoubtedly ...
... number of friendly or neutral forces, concentrating on the problems that cannot be solved without a coalition of the largest number of participants. In practice, this means developing partnership relations with Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), EEU and Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) member countries. Equally important are resolving the Ukraine problem, normalization of relations with the West as whole and ending military-political competition with the West. The focus should be on countering ...
... for the internal stability of the member countries, have brought the Commonwealth states back to the need for active discussion of the broadest possible military-technical cooperation
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. That the formats of bilateral links with Russia and even the CSTO no longer suffice for this field is witnessed by the Burabay summit, which adopted declarations on the joint struggle against international terrorism, a new Concept for Military Cooperation between the CIS States and a programme of cooperation by ...
... Belarus in the west, and Central Asia.
The CSTO is critically important in view of political containment, as it has become a capable actor in the construction of the entire regional security environment. Moreover, before the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) emerged, the CSTO had actually been the most efficient structure in the Commonwealth of Independent States. Quite naturally, it works as a balancer and instrument of restraint, especially in the geopolitically complicated South Caucasus.
In fact, the CSTO could be ...
