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.”
Representatives of concerned ministries and agencies of the CSTO member States have discussed issues of improving the Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics of the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces)
01.07.2022Consultations aimed at the development of the CSTO military component on the issues of Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics of the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces) were held via videoconferencing on July 1, this year.
Representatives of interested ministries and agencies of the CSTO member States, officials from the Joint Staff and the CSTO Secretariat took part in the consultations under the general supervision of Lieutenant General Anatoly Yakovlev, Head of the CSTO Military (Collective Forces) Use Planning Department - Deputy Head of the CSTO Military (Collective Forces) Use and Train Planning Center.
Consultations’ participants paid special attention to the report of Major General Almaz Akhmadiev, Head of Logistics of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Kazakhstan, on the organization of Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics for the CSTO Collective Peacekeeping Forces during the peacekeeping operation in the Republic of Kazakhstan, as well as the approval of the draft Regulation on Material Reserves to support the formations of the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces).
In the course of consultations, the draft Agenda of the next meeting of the CSTO Defense Ministerial Council Working Group on the Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics of the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces), which is planned for the autumn of 2022, was also agreed.
