On May 6, 2026, a meeting was held at the CSTO Secretariat between the CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykovand newly appointed Permanent and Plenipotentiary Representative of the Republic of Belarus to the CSTO Vladimir Bespaly.
28 April marks the Day of the CSTO Joint Staff. It should be recalled that on 28 April 2003, in Dushanbe, the Collective Security Council, guided by the need to establish a military staff body responsible for implementing the military component of the Collective Security Treaty, adopted the Decision “On the Establishment of the Joint Staff of the Collective Security Treaty Organization.”
On 27 April 2026, within the framework of the International Scientific and Practical Conference “Contours of a New Architecture of Collective Security: Current Issues of Information and Analytical Partnership within the CSTO,” held at MGIMO University of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, a round table entitled “Eurasian Analytical Platform: New Approaches in a New Geopolitical Reality” took place. During the event, Head of the Information and Public Relations Department of the CSTO Secretariat Yuriy Shuvalov delivered a presentation on “The Eurasian Analytical Network: A New Cognitive Architecture of Collective Security.”
CSTO Secretary General Stanislav Zas met with UN Under-Secretary General for Peacekeeping Operations - Head of the UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations Jean-Pierre Lacroix
22.06.2021
June 22, 2021, a working meeting of the CSTO Secretary General Stanislav Zas took place in Moscow with the UN Deputy Secretary General for Peacekeeping Operations - Head of the UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations Jean-Pierre Lacroix, who arrived in the Russian capital on a visit.
Stanislav Zas noted that the UN is the main international partner of the CSTO. "This is determined both by the unique position of the World Organization and the coincidence of the basic principles and goals of the UN and the CSTO, including equality and self-determination of peoples, maintaining international peace and security, and taking effective collective measures to prevent and eliminate threats to peace," he said. Interaction in conducting peacekeeping operations is regarded as one of the most important practical directions of cooperation with the UN in the long term, the CSTO Secretary General stressed.
Stanislav Zas and Jean-Pierre Lacroix exchanged assessments regarding the compliance of the peacekeeping practices of the CSTO member states with the requirements and standards of the UN, including the creation of a mechanism for the involvement of the CSTO peacekeeping forces in the UN peacekeeping activities. Jean-Pierre Lacroix's attention was drawn to the high level of professional, technical and staff readiness of the CSTO Peacekeeping Forces, the constant process of improving their structure, composition and readiness.
The parties expressed their readiness for further productive contacts on issues of mutual practical interest.
