CSTO PA presented its model acts and their operating principle at the Army 2022 Forum

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Collective Security Treaty Organization bases its lawmaking on the prognostic analysis principle and consideration of the national legislation and constant monitoring of the military and political situation on the outer borders of the Organization’s area of responsibility, including during the exercises of the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces). This also includes compliance of current activities with the CSTO Collective Security Strategy up to 2025 and the priorities of the CSTO presiding states.
Sergei Pospelov, Executive Secretary of the CSTO Parliamentary Assembly, said this in his speech at the round-table discussion Common Outlines of State Biological, Cognitive, Information, Energy and Food Security Amid Sanction Wars. CSTO: New Challenges, Prospects and Opportunities held at the International Military and Technical Forum Army 2022 within the framework of the congress Strategic Leadership and Artificial Intelligence Technologies.
Having detailed the CSTO PA’s work on legislative support of information security of the CSTO States, the Executive Secretary elaborated on the issue of ensuring cognitive security, recalling that in the current decade the traditional challenges and threats to global security have radically shifted to the information domain and then to the cyberspace, and that information aggression, distortion of real events and trampling of historical truth are used to drive a wedge between the brotherly peoples, to sully a common centuries-old culture. “These actions are a real threat to the stable development of the integration processes of Greater Eurasia,” said the CSTO PA Executive Secretary.
Sergei Pospelov recalled that as early as 2015, the CSTO Parliamentary Assembly adopted Recommendations on the Improvement of Legislative Support of Countering Crime on the Grounds of National, Racial and Religious Intolerance in the CSTO Member States, and in 2019, Recommendations on Improving the National Legislation of the CSTO Member States in the Area of Countering the Dissemination of Nazism and its Manifestations. Continuing to develop legislation in this area in the near future, the CSTO PA will complete the draft Recommendations on the Criminalization of Actions Related to Attempts to Rehabilitate Nazism, Distort Historical Truth, Humiliate Honour and Dignity of Military Veterans, Equate the USSR’s Role to Germany’s in the Second World War and Belittle the Humanitarian Mission of the USSR in the Liberation of Europe.
The CSTO PA Executive Secretary recalled that taking into account the fact that in recent years network technologies have been widely used to destabilize the situation in many states and to ensure ideological and psychological subjugation, primarily of young people as the main users and adopters of new technologies, the CSTO Parliamentary Assembly in 2018 adopted the model law On Countering Terrorism and Extremism through Information and 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, and in 2019, the model law On Non-State National Security Providers.
There are also proactive plans to develop Recommendations on the Harmonization of the CSTO States’ Legislation in the Area of Military-Patriotic Education and Upbringing and a draft model law On Military Patriotic Youth Organizations.
Regarding legislative support for energy security, Sergei Pospelov recalled that in 2015 the CSTO PA developed and adopted Recommendations on the Harmonization of the CSTO Member States’ Legislation in the Area of Strengthening Energy Security, and in 2017, the CSTO model law On Energy Security. This year the CSTO model law On Combating Terrorism at Fuel and Energy Complex Facilities is expected to be completed.
Regarding legislative support of biological security, the CSTO PA Executive Secretary reminded that in 2015 the CSTO PA, using its own monitoring mechanisms, drew attention to an extensive network of biological and genetic research facilities of the USA and other Western countries, conducting questionable activities both along the CSTO border perimeter and in a number of its States. In 2021, the Council of the CSTO Parliamentary Assembly decided to develop Recommendations on Legislative Support of Sanitary and Epidemiological (Medical and Biological) Security of the CSTO States.