85 years ago, the Great Patriotic War began. The war machine of Nazi Germany launched a treacherous attack against Soviet cities and villages and committed unprecedented atrocities against Soviet citizens. The peoples of the Soviet Union rose to defend their common Motherland and paid an enormous price for peace, freedom, and the right to live on their own land.
On June 17–18, 2026, CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov visited sections of the State Border of the Republic of Belarus with Poland and Lithuania.
On June 18, 2026, the 24th Meeting of the Interstate Commission for Military-Economic Cooperation of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (ICMEC CSTO) was held in Minsk on the sidelines of the 3rd International Security Industry Exhibition “National Security. Belarus 2026”. The meeting was chaired by Dmitry Stefanovich, Head of the Belarusian National Section of the ICMEC and Deputy Chairman of the State Authority for Military Industry of the Republic of Belarus.
On June 18, 2026, the 2nd Military-Economic Conference of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, entitled “Development of Cooperation among the Defense Industries (Military-Industrial Complexes) of the CSTO Member States: 20 Years of Practical Cooperation”, was held in Minsk on the sidelines of the 3rd International Security Industry Exhibition “National Security. Belarus 2026”. The event brought together representatives of relevant ministries, agencies, defense enterprises, and other institutions and organizations of the CSTO member states.
The XXIII meeting of the CSTO Interstate Commission on Military-Economic Cooperation was held in Astana
10.11.2025
The XXIII meeting of the CSTO Interstate Commission on Military-Economic Cooperation was held in Astana (the Republic of Kazakhstan) under the chairmanship of Denis Manturov, Chairman of the CSTO Interstate Commission on Military-Economic Cooperation and First Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation.
The results of the activities of the Commission on the implementation of the decisions of the 22nd session of the ICMEC, held in September last year in Bishkek (the Kyrgyz Republic), were discussed.
Along with this, the meeting Agenda included discussions on further development of military-economic cooperation within the CSTO framework. These included organizing training for personnel at enterprises and organizations in the defense-industrial (military-industrial) complexes of the CSTO member states, the creation of an intergovernmental system for cataloguing items supplied to the armed forces, and ensuring mutual protection of intellectual property rights obtained and used in the course of military-economic cooperation within the CSTO. The Commission adopted appropriate decisions on all issues considered on the meeting agenda.
The Commission decided to hold the Second CSTO Military-Economic Conference in Minsk (the Republic of Belarus) in 2026, at which it plans to summarize the Commission's work over the past 20 years and set tasks for the near future.
The meeting approved the ICMEC Work Plan for 2026.
It was decided to hold the next, ХХIV meeting of the Commission in September-October 2026 in the Republic of Belarus.
