The President’s instruction to protect Russian citizens from man-made disasters may become the basis for the model legislation and in the CSTO space

Today the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin set the task to protect the citizens and territories of the Russian Federation from the risks of man-made disasters, TASS reports. Vladimir Putin urged to analyse the regulatory framework to minimize the risks of man-made disasters.
Anatoly Vyborny, Chairman of the Standing Committee on Defence and Security of the CSTO Parliamentary Assembly and deputy of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, commented on the Order of the President of the Russian Federation with respect to putting the CSTO model legislation in place.
“In general, as the experience of the CSTO Parliamentary Assembly shows, all these years we are focused on implementing and using the best practices that exist in the CSTO Member States, which we constantly keep track of, as well as international legislation in general. And if we see positive results in a given country, of course, we immediately adopt this experience, both to raise awareness about it and to scale it up to all states of the Organization, because the CSTO, and its Parliamentary Assembly in particular, is the only international platform that considers the issues of defence and security as single and indivisible categories.
And in this regard, of course, we often see that in many security issues, Russia is a trailblazer. And I am very pleased that the Russian President comes up with fundamental initiatives that are focused primarily on preventing the challenges and threats that the world, our states, are facing today or may face in the future.
In this regard, of course, we are developing appropriate “rules of the game” within the country, and, as parliamentarians, at the same time we will model them with respect to the CSTO Member States. I think that such initiatives are extremely relevant, they will be sought after, and most importantly, they are very necessary for our states (particularly Russia), for our society and even for specific individuals, because they primarily concern safety of life in our countries.”
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