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.”
A meeting was held between CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov and Secretary of the Security Council of Kyrgyzstan Adilet Orozbekov
15.04.2026
On 15 April 2026, a meeting was held in Bishkek between CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov and Secretary of the Security Council of the Kyrgyz Republic Adilet Orozbekov.
The interlocutors held a substantive exchange of views on the situation in the CSTO area of responsibility, as well as in a number of other regions of the world. Given the particular importance of the Afghan factor for security in Central Asia, the parties paid special attention to issues related to the implementation of the Targeted Inter-State Program for strengthening the Tajik-Afghan border.
Talatbek Masadykov informed about the progress in implementing the Action Plan for the execution of decisions adopted at the November (2025) session of the CSTO Collective Security Council and the Organization’s priority areas of activity during Russia’s chairmanship, including preparations for upcoming meetings of the CSTO statutory bodies.
The Secretary General noted the clear relevance of the Kyrgyz initiative related to holding the CSTO International Conference on Cybersecurity in Cholpon-Ata in June 2025, emphasizing that this format could become an important platform for developing common approaches to ensuring information security.
For his part, Adilet Orozbekov reaffirmed the commitment of the Kyrgyz side to comprehensive cooperation with the CSTO member states in countering the full range of challenges and threats to collective security.
