On 24 April 2024, in Moscow, at the CSTO Secretariat consultations of the CSTO member states under the chairmanship of the Republic of Kazakhstan on the theme: "On topical issues of arms control, disarmament and non-proliferation" took place.
From 1 to 23 April 2024, the Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation hosted the regular IX Training Courses of the CSTO member states for senior staff and leading specialists of defense departments, law enforcement agencies, security council apparatuses, security agencies and special services, as well as bodies authorized to prevent and eliminate emergency situations.
On 22 April 2024, the CSTO Secretariat hosted a working meeting between the Deputy Secretary General of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, Samat Ordabaev, and the Special Representative of the UN Secretary General for Central Asia, Head of the UN Regional Centre for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia (UNRCCA), Kakha Imnadze.
Representatives of the defense departments discussed issues of improving the joint training of command and control bodies and forces of the forces and means of a collective security system of the Collective Security Treaty Organization
05.03.2020
On March 3 - 5, consultations were held at the Joint Staff of the Collective Security Treaty Organization on improving the joint training of command and the forces and means of a collective security system of the Collective Security Treaty Organization and a working meeting of representatives of the defense departments of the CSTO member states on organizing events in this area in 2020.
Representatives of the defense departments of the Republic of Armenia, the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Kazakhstan (via videoconferencing), the Kyrgyz Republic, the Russian Federation, the Republic of Tajikistan, the Secretariat and the Joint Staff of the Collective Security Treaty Organization took part in the event under the overall leadership of the First Deputy Head of the CSTO Joint Staff.
During the event, taking into account the proposals of the representatives of the defense departments of the CSTO member states, the sides discussed and agreed on improving joint training, conducting strategic command post training and first staff negotiations on organizing and conducting joint trainings with the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces) in 2020.
To all parties in the development of the intentions of the special exercises Echelon 2020 and Search 2020, the command and staff exercise Interaction 2020, the joint exercise Frontier 2020 and the command and staff exercise Unbreakable Brotherhood 2020, should be taken as the basis Plan of the operational-strategic task developed by the CSTO Joint Staff for conducting joint operational and combat training of the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces) in 2020.
The participants in the working meeting discussed participation in joint exercises conducted with the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces), representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross, the Republic of Serbia, the Republic of Uzbekistan, as well as the border services of the competent authorities of the CSTO member states.
As a result of consultations and a working meeting, agreements were reached, in particular, on the inclusion of representatives of the Republic of Serbia in the composition of the participants in the command-and-staff exercise "Indestructible Brotherhood 2020". The participation of representatives of the Republic of Uzbekistan as observers in the joint training “Frontier 2020” was approved.
