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Post by Sokol on Sept 5, 2012 23:35:34 GMT -5
The Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO; Russian: Организация Договора о Коллективной Безопасности) is an intergovernmental military alliance which was signed on 15 May 1992. On 7 October 2002, the Presidents of Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Tajikistan signed a charter in Tashkent founding the CSTO. Nikolai Bordyuzha was appointed secretary general of the new organization. On 23 June 2006, Uzbekistan became a full participant in the CSTO; and its membership was formally ratified by the Uzbek parliament on 28 March 2008.[1] The CSTO is currently an observer organisation at the United Nations General Assembly. The CSTO charter reaffirmed the desire of all participating states to abstain from the use or threat of force. Signatories would not be able to join other military alliances or other groups of states, while aggression against one signatory would be perceived as an aggression against all. To this end, the CSTO holds yearly military command exercises for the CSTO nations to have an opportunity to improve inter-organisation cooperation. The largest-scale CSTO military exercise held to date were the "Rubezh 2008" exercises hosted in Armenia where a combined total of 4,000 troops from all 7 constituent CSTO member countries conducted operative, strategic, and tactical training with an emphasis towards furthering efficiency of the collective security element of the CSTO partnership.[2] A 2011 series of training exercises has recently been held in central Asia consisting of "more than 10,000 troops and 70 combat aircraft".[3] Also, Russia has won the right to veto the establishment of new foreign military bases in the member states of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO). In order to deploy military bases of a third country in the territory of the CSTO member-states, it is necessary to obtain the official consent of all its members. But, the tightening of rules for opening extra-regional military bases apparently does not apply to existing facilities, such as the U.S. transit centre in Kyrgyzstan, a German air transit facility in Uzbekistan and French military aircraft based in Tajikistan. However, the decision gains importance in the light of reported plans by the Pentagon to redeploy to Central Asia some of the forces that will be pulled out of Afghanistan in 2014.[4] The CSTO employs a "rotating presidency" system in which the country leading the CSTO alternates every year. Kazakhstan currently has the CSTO presidency.[5] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_Security_Treaty_OrganisationGiven that Macedonia will face continuing objection from Greece, and possibly Albania and Bulgaria in the future, should it dump plans for NATO membership and instead look at alternatives such as the CSTO? My view is that Macedonia should seriously consider this, aswell as dumping plans for EU membership. Similarly, Serbia will forever face problems trying to join EU and NATO, and so it's consideration of the CSTO as an alternative is to be commended. *********** english.ruvr.ru/2011/05/05/49875036.htmlSerbia may join CSTOSerbia is one of the likeliest candidates for admission to the Collective Security Treaty Organization. Interfax quotes a high-ranking diplomatic source in Moscow as saying that consultations are already under way and that the issue could be brought up during an upcoming CSTO meeting in June. “The CSTO is not a frozen organization and holds the door open for anyone wishing to join it”, the source said. The CSTO comprises Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Armenia, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.
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Post by vinjak on Sept 6, 2012 0:49:55 GMT -5
Interesting stuff, I had no idea that this CSTO existed.
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Post by Sokol on Sept 6, 2012 1:35:16 GMT -5
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Post by Kralj Vatra on Sept 6, 2012 8:32:35 GMT -5
The CSTO comprises Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Armenia, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. WTF Ukraine is out? those damn slavs know how to become cheap consumables for the west...
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Post by rex362 on Sept 6, 2012 9:12:21 GMT -5
CSTO ? ..... talk about going backwards
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Post by Sokol on Sept 6, 2012 19:00:42 GMT -5
CSTO ? ..... talk about going backwards making you nervous?
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Post by Novi Pazar on Sept 7, 2012 2:56:37 GMT -5
Yes Serbia needs to join it and place one of their bases in Northern Kosovo i Metohija, or better still, have it next door to the Republic of Camp Bonsteels HQ ;D
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Post by bowandarrow on Sept 7, 2012 3:08:01 GMT -5
The CSTO comprises Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Armenia, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. WTF Ukraine is out? those damn slavs know how to become cheap consumables for the west... Russias on our side.
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Post by srbobran on Sept 7, 2012 14:32:29 GMT -5
The good thing about joining this alliance is the fact that Russia is re-emerging as a relevant power and as of right now, they have next to no one in the Balkans supporting them because all of our quasi governments are blindly throwing their support behind the EU. The Russians need us as much as we need them because right now, we are the only countries in Europe that they have a chance of persuading to their side. That fact alone gives alot of leverage in regards as to what we want to get out of this potential alliance and what we can gain from it.
Russians having been ever-increasingly asserting themselves in foreign policy and an outlet in Europe is what they NEED. If we have leadership with the skill and desire to play our cards right, this could be very beneifical.
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Post by terroreign on Sept 7, 2012 15:11:37 GMT -5
I don't agree with joining any military alliances until after we invade Kosovo and secure it.
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Post by Shqipni13 on Sept 7, 2012 17:51:54 GMT -5
^How can you invade a land that you clowns are supposedly entitled to? You malazez mutt!
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Post by Shqipni13 on Sept 7, 2012 17:56:49 GMT -5
CSTO ? ..... talk about going backwards making you nervous? What's there to be nervous about? The balkan states that were once Soviet satellites for a half century were probably more set back than from 500 years of Ottoman rule.
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Post by terroreign on Sept 7, 2012 20:12:44 GMT -5
^How can you invade a land that you clowns are supposedly entitled to? You malazez mutt! It's under occupation ya nut
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Post by Shqipni13 on Sept 7, 2012 21:51:35 GMT -5
^You can't invade something that belongs to you. In other words even the nationalistic clowns know there is nothing there for them.
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Post by uz on Sept 7, 2012 23:33:33 GMT -5
^You can't invade something that belongs to you. In other words even the nationaltic clowns know there is nothing there for them. The alternatives are ugly, everyone stays silent on that.
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Post by uz on Sept 8, 2012 15:14:52 GMT -5
I don't agree with joining any military alliances until after we invade Kosovo and secure it. Agreed. Serbia should only consider millitary alliances once their borders are secure and all Alb terrorists have been aprehended.
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Post by Shqipni13 on Sept 8, 2012 15:24:52 GMT -5
^Terrorists, what an easy word to just throw around huh? Sort of how the west does. The same west you are always critical of.
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Post by uz on Sept 8, 2012 15:31:00 GMT -5
^Terrorists, what an easy word to just throw around huh? Sort of how the west does. The same west you are always critical of. Isn't this the West you are so-for? See the f**king mix up you guys have in your brains, you don't know whether your dancing left or right. lol Kind of how you'll use the Hague argument for leverage against the Serbs but when an outcome comes out showing Serbs as vicitims you're quick to s**t bricks. You guys are flip floppers, and that's what makes you dangerous to the rest. Albanian "authority-military" in Kosovo are rightfully labelled as terrorists. Any country in Europe follows those standards pertaining to sepertatists. Serbia is an equal part of Europe.
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Post by Shqipni13 on Sept 9, 2012 15:25:17 GMT -5
^Everybody is a flip flopper. That's my f**king point. If the US flips its position on Kosova it will be you asswipes waving American flags in the middle of Belgrade.
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Post by uz on Sept 9, 2012 15:37:18 GMT -5
^Everybody is a flip flopper. That's my f**king point. If the US flips its position on Kosova it will be you asswipes waving American flags in the middle of Belgrade. Belgrade will never have mobs of Americans flags waving. You got to be kidding me. Like the Serbs are going to forget the 90's upto 99 and to now, you're delusional bre.
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