Sergei Zhilinsky: I am confident that the Border Guard Service Institute of the Republic of Belarus will maintain its active involvement in the CSTO PA work

First of all, let me thank you for the invitation to participate in the 12th plenary session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Collective Security Treaty Organization. I would like to commend the high-quality organization of the meeting that addresses a large number of topical issues of global and regional security.
Let me briefly comment on border security issues. Modern threats in border protection pose a great risk to the interests of the CSTO States. Ensuring collective border security should reliably prevent the members and emissaries of international terrorist and religious extremist organizations from crossing external borders, prevent means of terror and acts of sabotage, as well as curb the activities of cross-border criminal groups trafficking narcotic drugs, material and cultural property and organizing illegal migration channels across the external border of the CSTO Member States.
Armed conflicts and their possible escalation near the external borders of a number of CSTO Member States have recently been a matter of great concern. Therefore, organizing the fight against these threats requires not only substantial resources, but also a well-coordinated system to counteract these threats, both at the collective legislative level and at the national legislative level of the CSTO Member States.
I would like to particularly highlight that it was important and relevant for the CSTO Member States that the meeting adopted the Recommendation List of corpus delicti and administrative offenses in the field of ensuring the information security of individuals, society and the state for the CSTO Member States, as well as the Recommendations on harmonization of the legislation of the CSTO Member States on ensuring internal stability and counteracting technologies of external destructive impact aimed at destabilizing the socio-political situation.
At present, in accordance with the 2016–2020 CSTO PA Action Plan on Approximation and Harmonization of National Legislation of the CSTO Member States (paras. 7 and 37), with the direct participation of Professor D. Perevalov of the Border Guard Service Institute of the Republic of Belarus, CSTO model laws On Information Security and On Information and Analytical Support of Law Enforcement are being developed, their drafts are due to be submitted to the Assembly in the near future. The Border Guard Service Institute of the Republic of Belarus is an institution that provides high-level research work in the field of ensuring national security.
As a partner organization working closely with the Assembly on issues of mutual interest, the Institute intends to initiate the inclusion in the draft 2021–2025 CSTO PA Action Plan on Approximation and Harmonization of National Legislation of the CSTO Member States of the following: Recommendations on the Approximation and Harmonization of the National Legislation of the CSTO Member States Concerning Application of Special Means to Ensure National Security; Recommendations on the Implementation of the CIS Model Legislation Concerning Border Security in the National Legislation of the CSTO Member States, as well as CSTO model laws On Intelligence, On Counter-Intelligence, On Investigative Activities and On Security Activities.
I am confident that the Border Guard Service Institute of the Republic of Belarus will maintain its active involvement in the activities carried out by the CSTO PA and in the drafting of a number of model laws.​