On July 4, 2025, a delegation of the CSTO Secretariat visited the Central Military-Patriotic Park of Culture and Recreation of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation "Patriot".
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.
The Deputy Secretary General Valery Semerikov took part in the XIII Meeting of the Heads of National Anti-Terrorism Centers of the CIS Member States
18.02.2020
On February 18, 2020, the Deputy Secretary General Valery Semerikov took part in the XIII Meeting of Heads (Heads of Staff) of the National Anti-Terrorism Centers of the Member States of the Commonwealth of Independent States held in Moscow. The meeting addressed a wide range of issues of international cooperation in the fight against terrorism and extremism, factors affecting the security of states at the present stage, a forecast for the development of the situation in the short term, and priority areas for cooperation in the anti-terrorism sphere.
Addressing the meeting participants, Valery Semerikov assessed the level of terrorist threats in the CSTO area of responsibility, informed about the measures taken by the Organization to neutralize them as part of the relevant Decision of the CSTO Collective Security Council in October (2016). The CSTO Deputy Secretary General said that based on the assessment of terrorist threats emanating from foreign terrorist fighters, as well as the spread of terrorist ideology via the Internet, special attention should be paid to the category of CSTO citizens returning from combat zones, focusing on their rehabilitation. In addition, Mr.Semerikov pointed out, the implementation of preventive measures among convicted members of banned terrorist organizations in order to prevent the recruitment of new members of terrorist organizations in places of serving their sentences is of particular relevance.
The CSTO Deputy Secretary General emphasized the need to step up collective international efforts to counter terrorism and spread terrorist ideology based on the implementation of the UN Security Council anti-terrorism resolutions and the UN Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy. At the same time, he praised the CSTO's regional cooperation with the CIS ATC, carried out on the basis of the 2011 Memorandum and the 2018 Tripartite Memorandum between the CIS ATC, SCO RATS and the CSTO Secretariat, within which a permanent expert group was created and operates.
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