Emomali Rahmon: the CSTO has established itself as an important factor in ensuring peace and strengthening regional security

“Anniversaries present a good opportunity to reflect on CSTO’s achievements and development and to determine the prospects for our further multilateral cooperation in strengthening the common collective security system in the light of new realities,” Emomali Rahmon, President of the Republic of Tajikistan, said at the CSTO heads of state meeting dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the Collective Security Treaty and the 20th anniversary of the CSTO.

He stressed that over the years the CSTO has created an extensive framework of laws and treaties, necessary working and coordinating bodies and mechanisms aimed at achieving the Organization’s objectives.

“In this period the CSTO has established itself as an important factor in consolidating peace and ensuring regional security and stability. The Organization’s successful peacekeeping mission earlier this year was a clear demonstration of this,” Emomali Rahmon noted.

“Today the CSTO is an important platform for equal dialogue and cooperation among Member States in all three basic dimensions: political interaction, military cooperation and joint efforts to confront contemporary challenges and threats,” the President of the Republic of Tajikistan stressed.

“Today we are facing [...] important tasks to strengthen our common security. In view of the multiplication of security challenges and threats, we have to step up joint efforts to strengthen the Organization’s capacities and capabilities.”

The case of Afghanistan demonstrates that negative factors have accumulated over the last four decades, contributing to the deterioration of the military-political and socioeconomic situation in that country. In this regard, the CSTO needs to be prepared for various scenarios of development of the situation on its southern borders,” the President of the Republic of Tajikistan noted.