The Collective Security Treaty (CST) was signed on May 15, 1992 in Tashkent by the heads of six CIS countries Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. Subsequently countries like Azerbaijan, Georgia and Belarus joined to the Treaty. It entered to the force on April 20, 1994 with a period of five years and subsequent extension. The Treaty was registered in November 1, 1995 at the UN. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the former Soviet republics have lost such a powerful foreign policy mechanism as the Soviet Army. Despite the fact that the serious threats in the conventional sense did not exist, the country continued to be concerned for their safety. The basis for this was due to numerous regional conflicts that erupted in the former USSR. Therefore, the number of CIS countries decided to unite in order to provide self-security. Meanwhile, some researchers said that there is no real threat for the counties that signed the Treaty.
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