Multiple choice

The Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO) was accorded recognition as a full-fledged international security organisation by the United Nations in 2010. Its member countries are from which continent/continents?

  1. North America and Asia

  2. Asia and Africa

  3. Asia and South America

  4. Asia and Australia

  5. Asia and Europe
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Explanation

A Russia-led defence bloc of ex-Soviet states has signed a cooperation pact with the United Nations that is likely to pave the way for the alliance's greater involvement in Afghanistan.

U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon signed the document in Moscow on March 18, 2010 along with General Nikolai Bordyuzha, head of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO). The CSTO includes Russia, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.

The agreement amounts to a recognition of the CSTO as a full-fledged international security organisation. CSTO is often described as a counterbalance to NATO in Central Asia.

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