Sergei Pospelov: Parliamentary diplomacy has a special role as an institution capable of effectively responding to global and regional security challenges.

“The ever-growing capabilities of parliamentary diplomacy can have a deterrent effect on the development of events and processes undermining international stability and can strengthen trust between countries,” said CSTO PA Acting Executive Secretary Sergei Pospelov at the Second International Forum Development of Parliamentarism, speaking on June 2 at a session of the International Security: Dialogue of Legislators for Peace and Stability section.
“At the same time, today we have to reckon with the facts of the informational and psychological warfare that some states engage in; the upscaling and strengthening of the military infrastructure on the borders of the Eastern European collective security region; the desire to maintain a source of instability in Ukraine; the potential threat of deterioration of the situation in the Caucasus region; the actions of terrorist and extremist organizations on the borders of the Central Asian states in the CSTO collective security region,” said Sergei Pospelov.
He noted that the aggravation of international relations observed in recent years of the current decade requires comprehensive common security, development and improvement of its international legal treaty framework.
“To date, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Collective Security Treaty Organization has adopted 57 model laws and recommendations covering the issues of military and national security, military and technical cooperation, countering terrorism and extremism, illegal drug trafficking, organized crime, illegal migration and human trafficking, regulation of equal rights for migrant workers, humanitarian assistance in response to crisis situations, etc. That was made possible largely due to our systematic partnership with an entire range of scientific institutions, state agencies and expert structures of the Organization’s Member States. Today, however, this work needs to be accelerated and improved as much as possible because “while we used to build security systems for decades, today we are talking about the need if not for daily changes, then at least for constant revision of legislation and its fine-tuning, which is especially important in the sphere of security.”

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