CSTO PA representatives took part in the IPA CIS events

Representatives of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Collective Security Treaty Organization participated in the autumn events of the Inter-Parliamentary Assembly of the Commonwealth of Independent States taking place offline on November 25–26 in Tavricheskiy Palace in St Petersburg, the IPA CIS Headquarters.
On November 26, representatives of the CSTO PA participate in the fifty-third plenary session of the CIS Interparliamentary Assembly being held at Tavricheskiy Palace and presided over by Valentina Matvienko, Chairwoman of the Council of Inter-Parliamentary Assembly of the CIS Member Nations, Speaker of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation.
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Collective Security Treaty Organization and the CIS Inter-Parliamentary Assembly are linked by unbreakable ties of long-standing partnership.
During the formation of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, it was the IPA CIS’ structures that laid the foundation for the CSTO PA’s work and provided methodological assistance in organizing model law-making.
As you may recall, in 1999, the IPA CIS Council adopted a resolution according to which the parliamentary delegations representing the IPA CIS Member Nations participating in the Collective Security Treaty (CST) began to consider legal issues that would promote the implementation of this treaty within the IPA CIS.
The CIS Inter-Parliamentary Assembly’s status as the parliamentary institution of the Collective Security Treaty was formalized in 2000 during a session of the CST Collective Security Council (Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic), when the IPA CIS in the CST format was assigned to develop model laws and recommendations to unify and harmonize the CST Member States’ legislation.
On November 23, 2001, members of the Council of the IPA CIS Member Nations participating in the CST adopted, at their first meeting, the Legal Support Programme to the Key Action Plan for Establishing a Collective Security System of the States – Participants to the Collective Security Treaty for 2001–2005.
The Programme was approved by the chairpersons of the CST Collective Security Council and the IPA CIS Council and became the basis of the parliamentarians’ work until 2005 and was successfully implemented.