{"id":185542,"date":"2026-04-29T13:59:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T10:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/185542\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T14:50:55","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T11:50:55","slug":"russia-led-military-bloc-pledges-commitment-to-non-proliferation-treaty","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/185542\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia-led military bloc pledges commitment to non-proliferation treaty"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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April 29, Pozirk<\/em>.<\/strong> Members of the Russia-led Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) have declared their \u201cunwavering commitment\u201d to preserving and strengthening the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A statement on the bloc’s website describes the NPT as one of the cornerstones of the international security architecture, crucial \u201cin the current challenging international environment.\u201d The NPT continues to play a key role in preventing the proliferation of nuclear weapons, it noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The NPT\u2019s three pillars of disarmament, non-proliferation and the peaceful uses of nuclear energy are \u201ckey to ensuring that the Treaty not only can withstand current challenges and threats, but also remain the basis for inter-state cooperation in these areas for many years to come,\u201d the statement reads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The CSTO is a military-political alliance whose declared goals are strengthening peace, international and regional security and stability and protecting its member states\u2019 independence, territorial integrity and sovereignty. It consists of Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Tajikistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, Yerevan suspended its participation in CSTO, accusing its individual members of \u201cplanning a war\u201d against Armenia together with Azerbaijan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Belarus, a CSTO member and a party to NPT, previously announced the deployment of Russian tactical nuclear weapons on its territory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two days ago, the European Parliament urged the international community to recognize what it called the deployment of nuclear weapons in Belarus as a collective security threat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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