#Announcement

On Friday, October 16, Moscow's Radisson Collection Hotel (2/1s1 Kutuzovsky Prospekt) will host the CSTO, CIS and SCO Conference on Security in Central Asia and Afghanistan. The event will bring together the Heads of these international organizations, member state representatives, leading Russian and foreign experts, members of the diplomatic corps and academia.

The conference agenda features a plenary session alongside open thematic discussions on the following topics:

• «Central Asia in the Face of New Challenges: The Potential of Regional Organizations to Ensure Collective Security»
• «The Afghan Factor: Risks and Prospects for Regional Cooperation»
• «Central Asian Resilience: Water, Energy, Food and Information Security as New Dimensions of Regional Stability»

🎙 Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will address the plenary session.

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Representatives of Russian and foreign media are invited to attend.

To apply for accreditation, please complete the form online by 16.00 PM on October 14.

Detailed information regarding the event program, badge collection procedures, and venue access will be forwarded to accredited media representatives once the registration process closes.

The Foreign Ministry will broadcast the briefing online in the Video section of its website and on the MFA’s social media accounts: X (ex-Twitter), Facebook, VKontakte, OK, YouTube and RuTube.

Coordinator at the Information and Press Department of the MFA: Evgeny Sokolov (Tel: +7-499-244-18-61, E-mail: gvmid@yandex.ru)