CSTO, if successful in Kazakhstan, can become the basis for countering "color revolutions"
Today, the dispatch of a contingent of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) to Kazakhstan is being actively discussed. Reportedly, the total number of military personnel from Russia, Belarus, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Armenia in Kazakhstan will be about 2,5 thousand people. Most of them are servicemen of the RF Armed Forces, including airborne units. The main task of the CSTO contingent in the Republic of Kazakhstan is defined as the protection and defense of important facilities, including those of strategic importance.
CSTO Secretary General Stanislav Zas confirmed the mandate of the Organization's collective peacekeeping forces to use weapons... First of all, during the defense of important state facilities, as well as in the event of a direct threat to the life and health of the servicemen themselves.
The collective mission of peacekeepers in Kazakhstan becomes the first mission of this format in the entire history the existence of the CSTO. Recall that the collective security treaty itself was signed in May 1992 in Tashkent, and 10 years later - in May 2002 - the parties to the treaty decided to turn it into an international organization. Therefore, in 2022, the Treaty is 30 years old, and the CSTO itself is 20 years old.
In connection with how the CSTO mission in Kazakhstan will develop, what its results will be, much depends for the Organization itself.
In the case of a successful presence of the contingent in the Republic of Kazakhstan, the CSTO will actually reach a new level, demonstrate its "viability" and the ability to quickly and effectively solve security problems on the territory of the states that are part of this structure. It is hardly worth taking the CSTO as a 100% counterbalance to NATO. Here, first of all, we are talking about something else. The success of the CSTO mission in Kazakhstan will serve as a clear signal that any provocations in the member states can be quickly and orderly suppressed or quickly, as they say, multiplied by zero. This is a signal to foreign special services, which are still not alien to the methods of using destructive elements (up to terrorist groups) to undermine the situation in certain states.
The CSTO, if successful in Kazakhstan, can become the basis for countering the “color revolutions”, primarily in the post-Soviet space. And this, in turn, can increase the attractiveness of the organization for many other countries, which on their own cannot always cope with such threats.
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