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.
On June 19, 2025, in Bosteri, Issyk-Kul region of the Kyrgyz Republic, the XIX meeting of the Council of the Advisory Coordination Center of the Collective Security Treaty Organization on Computer Incident Response (CSTO CCC) was held, which was attended by delegations of representatives of national authorized bodies for responding to computer incidents of the CSTO member states.
On June 24-26, the second staff negotiations were held in the Kyrgyz Republic on the organization and conduct an operational meeting with the Command of the Collective Rapid Deployment Forces of the Central Asian Region (CAR CRDF) and a command and staff training with units of the CAR CRDF "Rubezh-2025", conducted as part of the joint operational and strategic training "Combat Brotherhood-2025".
The CSTO Secretariat held the 35th meeting of the Working Group on Afghanistan at the CSTO Ministerial Council
01.04.2022
On April 1, 2022, the 35th meeting of the Working Group on Afghanistan at the CSTO Ministerial Council was held with the participation of the CSTO Deputy Secretary General Samat Ordabayev. Delegations of the Organization's member States and representatives of the UN Regional Centre for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia, the CIS ATC, the CIS Coordination Service of the Council of Border Troop Commanders, the SCO RATS and the ICRC also took part in the event.
In the course of the meeting, the CSTO Deputy Secretary General S. Ordabayev noted that the Afghan issue continued to be very topical for the international community. Significant attention was paid to this issue in the framework of the meeting of the OSCE Ministerial Council (December 2021) as well as on February 16, this year, during the meeting of the UN Security Council devoted to the cooperation between the UN and the CSTO in ensuring global security. The timeliness of the Third Ministerial Conference of Afghanistan's Neighboring Countries (March 31, this year, China) on the promotion of post-conflict reconstruction and the normalization of the socio-economic situation in this state was emphasized.
The meeting participants held a thorough exchange of views on the military and political situation in Afghanistan. Information on cooperation of the CSTO member States in training law enforcement, customs and anti-drug structures was considered. The results of the work of the Group for the first half of 2022 were summarized.
At the end the Protocol of the meeting and the Plan of work of the Group for the second half of 2022 were adopted.
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