📄 Declaration of the Collective Security Council of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (Moscow, November 11, 2026) ✍️ We, the members of the Collective Security Council of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (#CSTO), reaffirm our unconditional commitment to the objectives set out in the Collective Security Treaty and the CSTO Charter – to create favourable and stable conditions for the comprehensive development of the member states and to safeguard their security, sovereignty and territorial integrity. We regard closer cooperation within the CSTO as one of our foreign policy priorities. We intend to take joint steps to further strengthen the collective security system. We emphasise that the CSTO gives priority to political and diplomatic means of resolving and settling conflicts. Its guiding principles include mutual respect and equality, non-interference in the internal affairs of states and due regard for their legitimate interests. We note that the international situation is undergoing fundamental change. A just #MultipolarWorld order continues to take shape. As new centres of influence grow stronger, competition is intensifying and new challenges to international security and global stability are emerging. ☝️ Amid continuing turbulence in world politics and international relations, stable and predictable forms of cooperation between states are particularly valuable. With its time-tested mechanisms, forces and capabilities, the CSTO is a cornerstone of a stable architecture of equal and indivisible security in Eurasia. Building such an architecture serves the fundamental interests of the Member States. We reaffirm our intention to continue working closely together to create conditions in which every state on the continent can develop free from the threat of external interference. In doing so, we are guided by the principle that states and groups of states must not pursue their own security at the expense of others. 🌐 To this end, the CSTO Member States will take part in drafting the Eurasian Charter of Diversity and Multipolarity in the 21st Century. We intend to continue working closely together to enhance the authority of the United Nations and strengthen its role as the principal instrument for maintaining international security. We will also work to advance a just #MultipolarWorld order founded on the UN Charter and the rule of international law, and to promote recognition of the many paths that states take towards progress as an asset to human civilisation. We express concern at the growing threats and strategic risks arising as individual states and countries belonging to other military alliances and coalitions move their military and strategic infrastructure closer to the borders of CSTO member states. ❗️ We emphasise that the deployment of weapons systems that threaten collective security along the perimeter of the CSTO’s area of responsibility is unacceptable. We are ready to expand cooperation between the CSTO and other international organisations, particularly the Commonwealth of Independent States and the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, with which we share the task of ensuring stability and security across Eurasia. We welcome the establishment of permanent channels for cooperation between the CSTO and the African Union to strengthen security and address new challenges and threats. Read in full