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Over the past ten years, the leaders of the CSTO and the NATO stated that these organizations have two areas of cooperation: the fight against transnational terrorism in Afghanistan and the maintenance of stability in Central Asia. The dangers of ‘Taliban’ and ‘Al Qaeda’ have prompted Russia to accept NATO's military presence in Central Asia. The security situation has changed in the region since 2009. NATO fears that Russia uses the CSTO mechanisms for the extrusion of the alliance from Central Asia. Moscow fears that NATO is not trying to stop the opium production in Afghanistan, but to establish a military and political dialogue with the Central Asian countries bypassing Russia. These trends have worsened after the NATO's Lisbon summit in 2010, which adopted the decision to withdraw the alliance forces from Afghanistan. Nevertheless, both the CSTO and NATO need to create new institutional mechanisms for enhancing their dialogue, and perhaps co-operation, on a wide range of regional issues.
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