November 18 during the 79th sessionGeneral AssemblyThe UN adopted a resolution on cooperation between the United Nations and the Collective Security Treaty Organization. The document emphasizes that the CSTO makes a significant practical contribution to strengthening its peacekeeping potential and the system of regional security and stability, countering terrorism and organized transnational crime, combating illicit drug and weapons trafficking, disorderly migration and human trafficking and eliminating the consequences of natural and man-made disasters, that contributes to the realization of the purposes and principles of the United Nations.
The General Assembly invited the UN Secretary General to continue to hold regular consultations with the CSTO Secretary General within the framework of bilateral contacts and forums of various formats. The UN and the CSTO will continue to interact in the interests of the consistent and comprehensive implementation of the UN Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy. Both organizations will also explore possible ways to further enhance cooperation in the field of peacekeeping.
The UN General Assembly decided to include in the provisional agenda of its 81st session, under the item entitled “Cooperation between the United Nations and regional and other organizations,” a sub-item entitled “Cooperation between the United Nations and the Collective Security Treaty Organization.” Resolution of the UN General Assembly on cooperation between the UN and the CSTO.
