Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO)

  • September 17, 2021
  • Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
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Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO)

Subject – IR

Context – Russia ­led bloc to hold military drills on Afghanistan border

Concept –

  • CSTO is an intergovernmental military alliance that was signed on 15 May 1992.
  • In 1992, six post-Soviet states belonging to the Commonwealth of Independent States signed the Collective Security Treaty (also referred to as the “Tashkent Pact” or “Tashkent Treaty”).
  • Its 6 members are: Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Tajikistan.
  • Headquarters: Moscow, Russia.
  • The objectives of the CSTO is to strengthen peace, international and regional security including cyber security and stability, the protection on a collective basis of the independence, territorial integrity and sovereignty of the member states.
Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) IR