MOSCOW, 27 April (BelTA) – Negative processes in the field of international security have been growing and the global security architecture is, in fact, being dismantled, CSTO Secretary General Stanislav Zas said after the CSTO Defense Ministers Council meeting in Dushanbe on 27 April, CSTO spokesman Vladimir Zainetdinov told BelTA.
“The meeting of the Defense Ministers Council was held in an atmosphere of allyship and mutual understanding,” Stanislav Zas said. “We discussed the challenges and threats to the military security of the CSTO member states, and measures to neutralize them. The defense ministers assessed the current military and political environment and the trends in its development in the CSTO's area of responsibility: Eastern European, Caucasus and Central Asian regions of collective security. Speaking in general terms, the situation is very complex and unstable. We see the growing negative processes in the field of military security at both the global and regional levels. In fact, the architecture of international security created after World War II is being dismantled."
The CSTO secretary general expressed the regret that the United States and its NATO allies are pursuing a destructive policy that significantly belittles the role of the United Nations. “By their actions they consistently discredit the UN and try to take control of its structures, put forward various proposals to reform the UN, especially the Security Council,” he said. “Attempts are being made to question the existing mechanism of using the veto power by its permanent members to strengthen pro-Western positions."
"The United States is manipulating international law for the sake of its national interests, which undermines the foundations of strategic stability in the world. The reformating of the existing arms control system has led to a sharp escalation of military threats to the collective security of the CSTO member states," Stanislav Zas summed up.
