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[CSTO Charter](https://en.odkb-csto.org/documents/documents/ustav_organizatsii_dogovora_o_kollektivnoy_bezopasnosti_/)", "Its collective-defence commitment includes assistance at an attacked member state's request under Treaty Article 4. [Collective Security Treaty](https://en.odkb-csto.org/documents/documents/dogovor_o_kollektivnoy_bezopasnosti/)", "Institutional decisions must be attributable to CSTO bodies; action by a member state alone does not establish CSTO authorship.", "Formal membership, attendance at meetings and participation in particular activities must be separately evidenced.", "National military assets count as organisational capability only through an evidenced contribution, availability or command relationship." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Institutional identity", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "International regional organisation; registry id vr.tr.collective-security-treaty-organization", "why_it_matters": "Prevents conflation with the treaty, a member state or a temporary coalition." }, { "name": "Applicable instrument", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Treaty, charter, protocol or implementing agreement linked to version, effective dates and relevant parties", 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[Council Regulation](https://antiterror.odkb-csto.org/framework/polozhenie-o-skb/)", "questions": [ { "text": "For this matter, what authority belongs to the Collective Security Council, ministerial councils, Permanent Council, Secretariat or Joint Staff?", "kind": "definition", "id": "competent-decision-maker-q01" }, { "text": "Which adopted instrument establishes the issuing body's competence and any delegated authority?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "competent-decision-maker-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "adoption-and-domestic-effect", "name": "Adoption and domestic effect", "description": "Separate the adoption of a decision from its implementation by states.", "findings": [ { "id": "decision-validity-and-execution", "name": "Decision validity and execution", "description": "The charter specifies consensus for substantive decisions of designated bodies. [CSTO Charter](https://en.odkb-csto.org/documents/documents/ustav_organizatsii_dogovora_o_kollektivnoy_bezopasnosti_/)", "questions": [ { "text": "Which adoption rule applies, and how were absence, objection or non-participation handled in the decision record?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "decision-validity-and-execution-q01" }, { "text": "Which national approvals or implementing acts remain necessary before the decision can be executed?", "kind": "action", "id": "decision-validity-and-execution-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "security-response-mandates", "name": "Security-response mandates", "description": "Distinguish requests, qualifying circumstances and authorisations for particular forms of response.", "rationale": "A security incident alone does not identify the applicable CSTO mechanism or demonstrate that a deployment is authorised.", "layers": [ { "id": "consultation-and-collective-defence", "name": "Consultation and collective defence", "description": "Assess the invoked treaty mechanism and its factual and procedural predicates.", "findings": [ { "id": "request-and-trigger-assessment", "name": "Request and trigger assessment", "description": "Article 4 links assistance to aggression against a member, that member's request and collective self-defence under UN Charter Article 51. [Collective Security Treaty](https://en.odkb-csto.org/documents/documents/dogovor_o_kollektivnoy_bezopasnosti/)", "questions": [ { "text": "Did the state request consultation, collective-defence assistance or another response, and what authenticated request establishes this?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "request-and-trigger-assessment-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence and competent determinations address the alleged attack, affected territory and applicability of the invoked provision?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "request-and-trigger-assessment-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "mission-specific-authorisation", "name": "Mission-specific authorisation", "description": "Assess each proposed mission against its own mandate and territorial limits.", "findings": [ { "id": "bounded-response-authority", "name": "Bounded response authority", "description": "Record the evidence needed to distinguish peacekeeping, crisis assistance and collective-defence operations.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which agreement and adopted decision authorise the mission's purpose, location, duration and permitted activities?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "bounded-response-authority-q01" }, { "text": "What host-state consent, UN involvement, reporting requirements and termination conditions apply to this particular mission?", "kind": "action", "id": "bounded-response-authority-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "collective-capacity-and-performance", "name": "Collective capacity and performance", "description": "Assess whether authorised commitments can be implemented and whether implementation achieved its stated objectives.", "rationale": "The organisation's institutional promises, member contributions and observed performance require separate records.", "layers": [ { "id": "contributed-forces-and-resources", "name": "Contributed forces and resources", "description": "Relate national contributions and organisational funding to usable collective capacity.", "findings": [ { "id": "available-capability-and-control", "name": "Available capability and control", "description": "Require dated evidence for the availability, funding and command relationships of capabilities attributed to the CSTO.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which collective formations or peacekeeping contingents are pledged, verified available and funded for the relevant task and period?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "available-capability-and-control-q01" }, { "text": "What activation decision transfers which command responsibilities, and what national restrictions or withdrawal rights remain?", "kind": "action", "id": "available-capability-and-control-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "implementation-and-outcome-evidence", "name": "Implementation and outcome evidence", "description": "Evaluate organisational delivery against explicit commitments and attributable observations.", "findings": [ { "id": "mandate-delivery-assessment", "name": "Mandate delivery assessment", "description": "Keep announcement, authorisation, deployment, completion and outcome as separately evidenced assessments.", "questions": [ { "text": "What dated records establish delivery time, participating resources, mission completion and withdrawal against the authorised objectives?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "mandate-delivery-assessment-q01" }, { "text": "Which outcomes can be attributed to CSTO action, and which remain disputed or explained by member-state or external action?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "mandate-delivery-assessment-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.", "layers": [ { "id": "reported-evidence", "name": "Reported evidence", "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes", "name": "Check these first", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; 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"knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the lifecycle of a Collective Security Treaty Organization is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "observations-and-status", "name": "Observations and current status", "description": "What is observed about a Collective Security Treaty Organization, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a Collective Security Treaty Organization is recorded so that it can be superseded rather than overwritten.", "questions": [ { "id": "observation-record-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an observation of a Collective Security Treaty Organization, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an observation of a Collective Security Treaty Organization, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an observation of a Collective Security Treaty Organization is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "people-and-responsibility", "name": "People, roles and responsibility", "description": "Who stands in what relation to a Collective Security Treaty Organization.", "rationale": "Social things are defined by the relations people hold to them, and those relations change without the thing changing.", "layers": [ { "id": "roles-and-parties", "name": "Roles and parties", "description": "The 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