{"id":79675,"date":"2021-09-18T20:26:19","date_gmt":"2021-09-19T00:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/?p=79675"},"modified":"2021-09-18T20:26:21","modified_gmt":"2021-09-19T00:26:21","slug":"afghanistans-neighbors-move-to-secure-borders-and-counter-terrorism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/blog\/2021\/09\/18\/afghanistans-neighbors-move-to-secure-borders-and-counter-terrorism\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan\u2019s Neighbors Move to Secure Borders and Counter Terrorism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Afghanistan\u2019s Neighbors Move to Secure Borders and Counter Terrorism<\/strong>&#8212;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sept.&nbsp;16, 2021 (EIRNS)\u2014In tandem with the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) began on Thursday two days of head-of-state sessions in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. The six nations involved are Russia, Tajikistan, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Belarus, and Kyrgyzstan. Their immediate central concern is to modernize and upgrade their forces on an unstable border with Afghanistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After an initial meeting on Thursday, the Secretary-General of the CSTO, Stanislav Zas, stated: \u201cIn connection with the change in the situation in Afghanistan, plans for the deployment and the makeup of both military contingents and special forces were agreed.\u201d Fourteen documents were reconciled and prepared for signing, including the \u201ctemporary presence of joint CSTO forces in the Central Asian region\u201d and the equipping of rapid response forces. Earlier, Russia\u2019s Security Council had issued their own statement saying that the CSTO, besides reinforcing the Tajik-Afghan border, would also tackle drug trafficking and illegal migration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afghanistan\u2019s Neighbors Move to Secure Borders and Counter Terrorism&#8212; Sept.&nbsp;16, 2021 (EIRNS)\u2014In tandem with the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) began on Thursday two days of head-of-state sessions in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. The six nations involved are Russia, Tajikistan, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Belarus, and Kyrgyzstan. Their immediate central concern is to modernize and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":79676,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[738,748,505,639,751,660],"tags":[842],"class_list":["post-79675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-belrus","category-updates","category-global-diplomacy","category-kazakhstan","category-russia","tag-lang-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79675"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79686,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79675\/revisions\/79686"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}