Russia's military allies will intensify their countermeasures against threats from Afghanistan. What, in addition to new exercises at the border, did the CSTO countries agree on at the summit in Dushanbe

What did the CSTO participants talk about in Dushanbe

On Thursday, September 16, a summit of countries of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) was held in Dushanbe. The bloc, which includes Armenia, Belarus, RUSSIA , Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, paid the main attention to the situation in Afghanistan. “The situation in the CSTO area of ​​responsibility and on the external borders of the member states is not only unstable, but also brings new, truly acute challenges and risks to the security of our countries,” Russian President Vladimir Putin , who took part in the summit on conference calls due to self-isolation (he explained the need for this by numerous cases of CORONAVIRUS in his immediate environment).

Russia's partners fully share this concern, follows from the speeches of other heads of state at the summit. President of Kyrgyzstan Sadyr Japarov noted that the formation of a “theocratic state in Central Asia will certainly negatively affect the current situation” in the CSTO member countries, the press service quoted him as saying. President of Belarus ALEXANDER LUKASHENKO spoke about the danger of a humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan and the possible influx of refugees because of this.

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan considered that the situation in Afghanistan and not only in this country requires the CSTO to improve crisis response mechanisms. Yerevan had many complaints about these mechanisms during the military conflict with Azerbaijan in Nagorno-Karabakh. “Our obvious priority is the fulfillment by the new Afghan authorities of their obligations to prevent the threat of terrorism from spreading to neighboring countries and regions. The same applies to drug trafficking and illegal migration, the fight against which requires the collective will of all parties involved,” President Kassym-Zhomart Tokayev listed the aspects of the Afghan situation that concern Kazakhstan.