CSTO Secretary General: Belarus’ priorities fully consistent with emerging military-political situation
On February 20th, CSTO Secretary General Imangali Tasmagambetov met with Russian Defence Minister General of the Army Sergei Shoigu – as reported on the CSTO website
It is noted that the parties discussed topical issues of developing the CSTO military component and improving its power potential.
Imangali Tasmagambetov informed Sergei Shoigu about the results of his recent visit to Minsk, where during a meeting with the Chairman of the Collective Security Council, President of Belarus Aleksandr Lukashenko, an action plan was approved to implement the decisions of the November (2022) session of the CSTO Collective Security Council and to implement the CSTO’s priority areas activity during Belarus’ chairmanship, which includes a large section on the development of liaisons in the military and military-technical sphere.
“Belarusian priorities are aimed at increasing the readiness of the components of the CSTO Collective Forces to fulfil their intended tasks and strengthening military-technical interaction between the CSTO member states. They are fully consistent with the emerging military-political situation and reflect the most relevant and promising areas for the development of the CSTO military component,” the organisation’s Secretary General underlined.
He also informed the Russian Defence Minister that this year the plan of joint training of command bodies and formations of forces and means of the CSTO collective security system envisages holding a number of major exercises of the Collective Forces in Belarus.
“In September, an exercise is planned with the Collective Rapid Response Forces Interaction-2023, a special exercise with the forces and means of intelligence Search-2023 and Echelon-2023 with logistic support units. Work is actively underway to improve the management system of the Collective Forces, in particular, in the field of communications,” the CSTO Secretary General noted, adding that it is proposed to conduct an exercise with the CSTO Peacekeeping Forces on the territory of Kyrgyzstan: Indestructible Brotherhood-2023.
In turn, Sergei Shoigu congratulated Imangali Tasmagambetov on his appointment as CSTO Secretary General.
