MOSCOW, 19 May (BelTA) – Collective Security Treaty Organization member states intend to step up joint efforts to inform the general public about the organization's work. Secretary General of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) Stanislav Zas made the statement after a session of the CSTO Foreign Ministers Council in Dushanbe, Tajikistan on 19 May, BelTA has learned.
According to the source, the CSTO Foreign Ministers Council has decided that diplomatic missions of the CSTO member states will step up efforts to cover the organization's work. The CSTO foreign ministers decided to instruct their ambassadors to step up interaction in matters concerning the coverage of the Collective Security Treaty Organization's work. In particular, the document provides for arranging CSTO Days and for using digital resources of the CSTO member states' diplomatic missions in order to deliver up-to-date information about the organization. Social networks will also be used to popularize the CSTO's work.
The CSTO Foreign Ministers Council approved a draft agreement on the jurisdiction and legal aid in cases relating to the temporary presence of collective security forces in the territories of the CSTO member states. The purpose of the document is to create a mechanism of cooperation of the relevant authorities of the CSTO member states (military police, military investigators, military prosecutors, military courts and tribunals) in criminal cases and administrative cases focusing on people that belong to the collective security forces.
The next session of the CSTO Foreign Ministers Council is supposed to take place in Tajikistan in Q4 2021 prior to a session of the Collective Security Council.
