Viktor Kogut: A systemic comparison of the statutory bodies’ positions is important for our Organization’s development

At the working meeting between the plenipotentiary representatives of the CSTO Member States to the CSTO and plenipotentiary representatives of the CSTO Member States’ parliaments to the CSTO Parliamentary Assembly, Viktor Kogut, deputy Secretary General of the CIS IPA and Plenipotentiary Representative of the National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus to the CSTO Parliamentary Assembly, suggested establishing a systematic exchange of information between the CSTO statutory bodies and strengthening the information aspect of the CSTO Parliamentary Assembly’s activities. “The international agenda, all those topical issues and global problems posed today are in one way or another related to the area of information, to spreading misinformation, to this or that manner of material presentation. Therefore, our joint work on responding to these things will undoubtedly yield results,” he said during a working meeting between the plenipotentiary representatives of the CSTO Member States to the CSTO and plenipotentiary representatives of the CSTO Member States’ parliaments to the CSTO Parliamentary Assembly.

Deepening cooperation between the Permanent Council of the Collective Security Treaty Organization and the CSTO Parliamentary Assembly on the implementation of decisions of the CSTO Collective Security Council, as well as ways to enhance cooperation were discussed at a working meeting between the plenipotentiary representatives of the CSTO States headed by Viktor Biyagov, Chairman of the Permanent Council and Permanent and Plenipotentiary Representative of the Republic of Armenia to the CSTO, and plenipotentiary representatives of parliaments of the CSTO Member States to the CSTO Parliamentary Assembly. The meeting took place in St Petersburg with some members participating remotely.

Meeting participants included Viktor Biyagov, Chairman of the CSTO Permanent Council and Plenipotentiary Representative of the Republic of Armenia to the CSTO; Samat Ordabaev, deputy CSTO Secretary General; Vyacheslav Remenchik, Plenipotentiary Representative of the Republic of Belarus to the CSTO; Zhanybek Imanaliev, Plenipotentiary Representative of the Republic of Kazakhstan to the CSTO Permanent Council; Mirlan Turgunbekov, Permanent and Plenipotentiary Representative of the Kyrgyz Republic to the CSTO; Mikael Agasandyan, Permanent and Plenipotentiary Representative of the Russian Federation to the CSTO and Ambassador at Large of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation; Khasan Sultonov, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Tajikistan to the CSTO and Counsellor of the Embassy of the Republic of Tajikistan in the Russian Federation; Stanislav Zas, CSTO Secretary General; Hayk Chilingaryan, deputy Secretary General of the CSTO PA and Plenipotentiary Representative of the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia; Viktor Kogut, deputy Secretary General of the IPA CIS and representative of the National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus to the IPA CIS and the CSTO PA; Viktor Rogalev, deputy Executive Secretary of the CSTO PA and Plenipotentiary Representative of the Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan; Nurbek Satvaldiev, deputy Secretary General of IPA CIS and representative of the Jogorku Kenesh of the Kyrgyz Republic to the IPA CIS and CSTO PA; Mikhail Krotov, deputy Executive Secretary of the CSTO PA and Plenipotentiary Representative of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation; and Bakhtovar Safarzoda, deputy Secretary General of the IPA CIS and representative of the Parliament of the Republic of Tajikistan to the IPA CIS and the CSTO PA and Sergei Pospelov, CSTO PA Executive Secretary and head of the CSTO PA Secretariat