Russia wants written guarantee from US. Russia wants written guarantee from US US missile shield in Europe (file photo) The Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) has criticized the deployment of the US and NATO missile system in Europe, demanding written guarantees that the system will not be aimed at Russia.
NATO and the US had refused to sign any written guarantee and claim that their system does not target Russia, Reuters quoted Secretary General of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) Nikolai Bordyuzha as saying on Thursday. Established on May 15, 1992, CSTO is a political and military alliance and currently has seven members including Russia and some ex-soviet republics. No consensus had been reached by Russia with the US and NATO on their anti-missile system in Europe, CSTO's Secretary General said. Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) The Central Asian Republics are members of several regional organizations whose stated aim is promoting multilateral solutions to security and economic challenges.
These groupings that include the Central Asian states are receiving increased scrutiny around the world. The Collective Security Treaty Organization, formed under the framework of the Commonwealth of Independent States, serves as a mutual defense alliance among Russia, Belarus, Armenia and the four Central Asian states except Turkmenistan. The Eurasian Economic Community comprises a similar grouping of states but focuses on economics, including the creation of a common market, border security standards, a customs union, standardized currency exchange and joint programs on social and economic development. Both of these organizations are strongly supported by Russia and capitalize on residual political, economic, and bureaucratic linkages among former Soviet republics.
The CSTO is not a Warsaw Pact II. Collective Security Treaty Organisation. The Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO; Russian: Организация Договора о Коллективной Безопасности Organizatsiya Dogovora o Kollektivnoy Bezopasnosti) is an intergovernmental military alliance which was signed on 15 May 1992.
In 1992, six post-Soviet states belonging to the Commonwealth of Independent States—Russia, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan—signed the Collective Security Treaty. Three other post- Soviet states—Azerbaijan, Belarus, and Georgia—signed the next year and the treaty took effect in 1994. Five years later, six of the nine—all but Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Uzbekistan—agreed to renew the treaty for five more years, and in 2002 those six formally agreed to create the Collective Security Treaty Organization as a military alliance. Uzbekistan rejoined the CSTO in 2005. CSTO.