Secretary General of the CSTO

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Secretary General of the Collective Security Treaty Organization
Генеральный секретарь ОДКБ
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Incumbent
Imangali Tasmagambetov
since 1 January 2023
CSTO
Member ofCSTO Collective Security Council
SeatCSTO Secretariat, Moscow, Russia
Term lengthFour years, renewable
FormationOctober 1996; 27 years ago (1996-10)
First holderVladimir Zemsky

The secretary general of CSTO is the chief civil servant of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), responsible for coordinating the workings of the alliance. The officeholder is one of the foremost political official in the organization. The current secretary general is former Kazakh Prime Minister Imangali Tasmagambetov, who took office on 1 January 2023.

History[edit]

The NATO countries selected the first secretary general in October 1996. Since that time, eight different military/security officials have served officially as secretary general. Four countries have been represented, with five secretaries general hailing from Russia, one from Armenia, one from Belarus and one from Kazakhstan. The position has also been occupied temporarily on two occasions by an acting secretary general between appointments.

Secretariat[edit]

The Secretariat has divisions in charge of legal, financial, economic and other issues. The number of quota posts in the Secretariat is assigned to the CSTO member states in proportion to their contributions to the budget. The appointment of officials to the quota positions of the Secretariat is carried out by the Secretary General on a rotational basis every three years on the proposal of the CSTO member states.[1]

Leadership[edit]

Structure[edit]

The CSTO Secretariat includes the following main structural units:

  • Department of Political Cooperation
  • Department for the Management of Military Security Problems
  • Department for Countering Challenges and Threats
  • Case Management Department
  • Organizational and Planning Department

List of secretaries-general[edit]

The following have served as heads of the CSTO:[2]

Country Name Term start Term end
 Russia Vladimir Zemsky[3] October 1996 March 2000
 Russia Valeriy Nikolayenko[4] May 2000 28 April 2003
 Russia Nikolay Bordyuzha 28 April 2003 31 December 2016
 Russia Valery Semerikov (Acting) 1 January 2017 2 May 2017
 Armenia Yuri Khatchaturov 2 May 2017 1 November 2018
 Russia Valery Semerikov (Acting) 1 November 2018 31 December 2019
 Belarus Stanislav Zas 1 January 2020 23 November 2022
 Kazakhstan Imangali Tasmagambetov 1 January 2023

Citations[edit]

  1. ^ "Секретариат ОДКБ". odkb-csto.org. Retrieved 2023-06-04.
  2. ^ "Leadership history". en.odkb-csto.org. Archived from the original on 11 January 2021. Retrieved 2021-01-09.
  3. ^ "Zemsky Vladimir Vasilyevich". en.odkb-csto.org. Retrieved 2023-06-04.
  4. ^ "Nikolayenko Valeriy Dmitrievich". en.odkb-csto.org. Retrieved 2023-06-04.


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