CSTO Summit in Moscow Adopts Anti-Terrorism Strategy to 2030, Agrees Air-Defense Upgrades and Collective Air Forces
The Collective Security Council of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) met in Moscow on November 11 under the chairmanship of Russian President Vladimir Putin. The leaders adopted a final declaration and the CSTO Anti-Terrorism Strategy through 2030, and agreed to upgrade member states' air-defense systems and develop a CSTO Collective Air Forces to counter cross-border threats from Afghanistan. Russia will hand the organization's rotating presidency to Tajikistan on January 1, 2027.
A day earlier, CSTO foreign ministers, defense ministers and security council secretaries met jointly in Moscow under Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov; Armenia sent no delegates. Lavrov said the summit would consider suspending Armenia's voting rights under Article 25 of the CSTO Charter after more than two years of unpaid membership fees, and Secretary General Taalatbek Masadykov said Armenia had effectively stepped back from the organization's discussions, decision-making, major events and joint military exercises. The ministerial meeting also issued a statement on foreign military infrastructure approaching the bloc's borders: addressing an international collective security forum, Masadykov warned that plans by some NATO members to deploy nuclear arsenals and their delivery systems near the western borders of the CSTO area of responsibility would have adverse consequences for European security, and he raised concerns about the militarisation of Western economies and of space.
On border security, the CSTO's five-year program to strengthen the Tajikistan-Afghanistan border continues: Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan are to provide Tajikistan with weapons, military equipment and border-protection technology, with the first deliveries expected before the end of 2026. Belarus also urged the CSTO to serve as the military backbone of a broader Eurasian Charter.
Source: Collective Security Treaty Organization
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