Anatoly Sidorov: Terrorist threats continue from Afghanistan.
The head of the Joint Staff of the Collective Security Treaty Organization said: This organization is trying to curb terrorist threats from Afghanistan.
Anatoly Sidorov, head of the Joint Staff of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, said: This organization plans to hold exercises in Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, and Tajikistan in 2024.
He added: The 2024 plan has a special emphasis on the collective security region of Central Asia.
Sidorov stated: Exercises are to be conducted with collective rapid response forces in Kyrgyzstan, with peacekeeping forces in Kazakhstan, and with rapid deployment forces in the Central Asia region in Tajikistan.
The head of the Joint Staff of the Collective Security Treaty Organization said: It is still too early to talk about the time and place of the exercises, these issues will be discussed in December 2023.
He continued: This organization is trying to contain the terrorist threat from Afghanistan.
Sidorov stressed: We are not talking about a military risk but about the problems caused by the fact that the Afghan authorities do not control a number of border areas.
It should be noted that the last exercise of this organization was held in Kyrgyzstan in October.
The Collective Security Treaty Organization is an international security organization whose current members are Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, and Tajikistan. It was established in 2002 based on the Collective Security Treaty of May 15, 1992.