The agreement regulates matters relating to the participation of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO) in peacekeeping activities on international and regional levels.
The CSTO's peacekeeping activities include non-combat operations aimed at resolving disputes (in accordance with the UN Charter), in addition to collective action taken using military, police, and civilian staff, for the prevention, containment and cessation of hostilities between states or within the borders of a state, as well as maintaining peace and security.
The peacekeeping forces are recruited from member states of the CSTO, which in accordance with their national laws provide an ongoing allocation of peacekeeping units.
The peacekeeping units will undergo training using uniform CSTO programmes, will be equipped with identical and compatible types of weapons and means of communication, and will take part in regular joint military exercises.
Decisions to carry out peacekeeping operations on the territory of any CSTO member state will be taken by the Council on Collective Security with consideration given to national laws, and on the basis of official communications with member states regarding carrying out peacekeeping operations on their territory, or, where the territory concerned lies outside the CSTO, in accordance with the UN Security Council resolution regarding peacekeeping operations.
The Agreement on peacekeeping activities of the CSTO was signed in Dushanbe on the 6 October 2007.
The Federal Law was adopted by the State Duma on the 26 December 2008 and approved by the Federation Council on the 29 December 2008.