{"id":20897,"date":"2024-02-25T09:59:58","date_gmt":"2024-02-25T04:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=20897"},"modified":"2025-04-06T08:24:22","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T02:54:22","slug":"csto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/csto\/","title":{"rendered":"Collective Security Treaty Organisation"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Collective Security Treaty Organisation<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is an\u00a0intergovernmental military alliance in Eurasia, which was established in 2002.<\/li>\n<li>Members of the organization at present are: Russia, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan.<\/li>\n<li>Background\n<ul>\n<li>The Collective Security Treaty (CST) was signed on May 15, 1992 in Tashkent by the Heads of six countries:\u00a0Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. Subsequently, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Belarus joined it.<\/li>\n<li>The treaty came into force on April 20, 1994.<\/li>\n<li>On May 14, 2002, in Moscow, the Collective Security Council made a decision to grant the status of an international regional organization to the Collective Security Treaty.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>In 2004 the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution granting the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) an\u00a0observer status in the UN General Assembly.<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0statutory bodies of the Organization are: the Collective Security Council (CSC), the Council of Foreign Ministers (COM), the Council of Ministers of Defense (CIO), the Committee of Secretaries of Security Council (CSSC).<\/li>\n<li>The key objectives of the CSTO include\n<ul>\n<li>The provision of national and collective security, intensive politico-military cooperation, foreign policy coordination on international and regional security issues, the establishment of multilateral cooperation mechanisms, including a military component, the development of cooperation in the counteraction to modern challenges and security threats.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Headquarter: Moscow, Russia<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is NATO?<\/h3>\n<p>It was formed in 1949 with the signing of the Washington Treaty, NATO is a security alliance of 31 countries from North America and Europe. Its fundamental goal is to safeguard the Allies\u2019 freedom and security by political and military means.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/asia-pacific\/armenia-freezes-participation-russia-led-security-bloc-prime-minister-2024-02-23\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Armenia freezes participation in Russia-led security bloc &#8211; Prime Minister<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Collective Security Treaty Organisation is an intergovernmental military alliance in Eurasia, which was established in 2002.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":20898,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-20897","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}