MOSCOW, Feb 9 - RIA Novosti. The CSTO is ready to join the negotiations between Russia and the West on security guarantees, if there is such a need, but now it is not, said the Secretary General of the CSTO Stanislav Zas.
The CSTO includes Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, and Tajikistan.
At the end of 2021, Russia published drafts of a treaty with the United States and an agreement with NATO on security guarantees, and on January 26, the United States and NATO sent written responses to these proposals to Moscow. In the draft agreement on security guarantees with NATO, Russia proposed to exclude the further expansion of the alliance and the accession of Ukraine to it, to abandon military activities on the territory of Ukraine and other countries of Eastern Europe, Transcaucasia and Central Asia.
