The 23rd meeting of the Military Committee on military cooperation development among the CSTO member states under the supervision of the Chairman of the Military Committee, Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation - First Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, Army General Valery Gerasimov, took place today via videoconferencing.
From April 8 to 11, 2024, the XXI International Seminar-Meeting on Combined Martial Arts with the heads of combat and physical training of the security ministries and agencies of the CSTO member states took place at the Park Hotel "Horizon", Odintsovo District, Moscow Region.
The event was addressed by Gennady Troislit, the Deputy Head of the Organizational and Planning Department of the CSTO Secretariat, and Oleg Ufimtsev, the President of the Russian Federation of Combined Martial Arts.
The CSTO Secretary General Stanislav Zas had a meeting with the Minister of Defense of the Republic of Kazakhstan Nurlan Yermekbayev in Nur-Sultan
09.03.2021
On March 9, this year, in Nur-Sultan, the Secretary General of the Collective Security Treaty Organization Stanislav Zas had a meeting with the Minister of Defense of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Lieutenant General Nurlan Yermekbayev.
In the course of the conversation, the CSTO Secretary General and the Minister of Defense of the Republic of Kazakhstan discussed the activities of joint operational and combat training planned in 2021, as well as the Plan for equipping the CSTO CRRF.
In the course of the meeting, the parties paid special attention to enhance the training of the CSTO Peacekeeping Forces and equipping them with modern weapons, military and special equipment, special means, taking into account the possible involvement of the CSTO Peacekeeping Forces in the UN peacekeeping operations through the "coordinating state", which is one of the CSTO member states. Thus, the CSTO Peacekeeping Forces includes a Russian medical detachment, which in the future is supposed to be made a combined unit, supplementing its composition with representatives (specialists) of the CSTO member states.
They also discussed the implementation of the initiative of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, expressed in the course of the December 2020 session of the CSTO CSC on the establishment within the framework of the Organization of a new institution - the Special Representative of the CSTO Secretary General for peacekeeping.
The Minister of Defense of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the CSTO Secretary General have discussed the issues included in the agenda of the upcoming April meeting of the CSTO Council of Defense Ministers and the trainings of the Collective Forces scheduled for the current year. In particular, on the territory of the Republic of Tajikistan, it is expected to conduct a joint training with the CSTO CRRF "Interaction-2021", a special training with reconnaissance assets “Poisk-2021" and trainings with the assets of the Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics units of the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces) "Echelon- 2021". On the territory of the Russian Federation, a training with the CSTO Peacekeeping Forces "Indestructible Brotherhood-2021" and an operational training with the Command of the Collective Rapid Deployment Forces of the Central Asian region will take place.
In the course of the meeting, the draft Plan for joint training of command and control bodies and formations of the assets of the CSTO collective security system for 2022 was being discussed.
After the meeting, Stanislav Zas made an entry in the Distinguished visitors’ book of the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Kazakhstan, got acquainted with the Monument to soldiers killed in action and visited the National Military-Patriotic Center of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
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