On July 4, 2025, a delegation of the CSTO Secretariat visited the Central Military-Patriotic Park of Culture and Recreation of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation "Patriot".
The Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov received the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the CSTO member states and the Secretary General of the Organization in Cholpon-Ata on June 30. The meeting was attended by the Foreign Ministers of Kyrgyzstan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Russia and Tajikistan.
On June 30, 2025, a regular meeting of the CSTO Council of Foreign Ministers was held in Cholpon-Ata (the Kyrgyz Republic) under the chairmanship of the Kyrgyz side, which was attended by the Organization's Secretary General Imangali Tasmagambetov.
Safar Umarzoda, Head of the Department for Countering Challenges and Threats of the CSTO Secretariat, took part in a special event (side-event) on "Countering Radicalization leading to terrorism and Extremism" organized by the Russian Federation on the margins of the OSCE Annual Conference on Security Review, where he reported on the measures taken by the CSTO on countering terrorism and extremism, and willingness to share the experience gained.
Serbian Minister of Defense Alexander Vulin and Acting CSTO Secretary General Valery Semerikov discussed the basics of the legal regulation of the participation of Serbian military personnel in joint trainings with the CSTO Collective Forces
26.04.2019
On April 25, 2019, a working meeting of the Acting CSTO Secretary General Valery Semerikov with the Minister of Defense of the Republic of Serbia Alexander Vulin took place in the CSTO Secretariat in Moscow.
Head of the Joint Staff of the CSTO Colonel-General Anatoly Sidorov, Director of the Military Intelligence Agency of the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Serbia Brigadier General Zoran Stojkovic, Head of the Department of International Military Cooperation of the Ministry of Defense of Serbia Colonel Milan Rankovic, other officials of the Ministry of Defense of Serbia and the CSTO also participated in the meeting.
Valery Semerikov congratulated the Minister of Defense of the Republic of Serbia Alexander Vulin and all members of the Serbian delegation on the 204th anniversary of the creation of the Armed Forces of Serbia and stressed their growing role in strengthening European security.
During the meeting they discussed issues related to the legal regulation of the basis for the participation of servicemen of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Serbia in joint trainings with the CSTO Collective Forces, as well as the procedure for their involvement in the trainings in 2019.
In addition there was an exchange of views on the training of servicemen of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Serbia in military educational institutions of the CSTO member states.
One of the important results of the meeting was the confirmation of mutual interest in building up cooperation in key areas of regional security.
CSTO press secretary Vladimir Zaynetdinov
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