... taking into account the legitimate interests of other international players, including Russia and Kazakhstan, and their integration associations.
Question:
What is Moscow’s view on the further development of bilateral integration processes, including Russia-Kazakhstan interaction within the framework of the EAEU, the CSTO and the SCO? What are your priorities for the near future?
Sergey Lavrov:
You are aware that the idea of the Eurasian Economic Union was proposed by First President of the Republic of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev, who put it forth back in 1994 during a lecture ...
... smuggle narcotics every year, the illicit drug trade is truly a transnational problem and requires intense cooperation between the affected states. However, the anti-drug potential of regional organisations such as the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), the Sino-Russian led security alliance, or the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO), is not fully exploited and is limited in terms of capacity and political will.
Russia has been promoting collective security with its Central Asian neighbours through the
Shanghai Cooperation Organisation
. Created in 2001 and composed of eight ...
... States. Surprisingly, the main antagonist in the proceedings for Russia turned out to be Armenia, which tried to force Russia into taking a clear pro-Armenian position in the conflict. Yerevan is unhappy about military-technical cooperation between Moscow and Baku and the lack of consensus on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict within the CSTO and the EAEU
Russia’s policy in the post-Soviet space has received almost no support from the global community.
The process of change that is happening with regard to the political elites in the post-Soviet authoritarian regimes has the potential to destabilize ...
... order to create conditions for expanded cooperation in fighting terrorism in the new reality.
International conference
"
Russia-China: toward a New Quality of
Bilateral Relations
": video, materials
The SCO states believe that the evil can be eradicated only through more intensive joint efforts aimed against both its symptoms and ... ... consolidated action of the global community on the firm basis of international law and unified integrated approaches.
As far the CSTO is concerned, in 2007 the two organizations signed a memorandum of understanding that provides a firm foundation for combined ...
... regional 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 triggers certain questions ...
... from the Collective Security Treaty Organization just three weeks after the signing of these documents looked like a failure of the Russian diplomacy.
The failures of Russia in the "Uzbek direction" are part of an overall trend. The current Russian policy in Central Asia was formed under the influence of diplomatic successes of mid-2000s. In the period from 2003 to 2007, Moscow succeeded in creating CSTO, return to this organization Uzbekistan, sign lucrative contracts for the transit of Turkmen gas and to start negotiations on the establishment of the Customs Union. A series of successes gave rise to the idea that the Central Asian states were doomed ...
