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".
In the year of the 25th anniversary of the signing of the Collective Security Treaty and the 15th anniversary of the creation of the CSTO, President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan spoke about the current role of the Organization in an interview with the MTR "M
12.05.2017 Sargsyan to “MIR”: CSTO countries together achieve collective benefits
The President of Armenia in the year of the 25th anniversary of the CSTO spoke about the modern role of the organization.
Photos: Press Service of the President of Russia
"The collective security agreement is not directed against anyone. The states that have signed have proceeded from the need to rally their efforts to ensure security in the CSTO zone, so this is not about private gain. And this is a collective benefit, a benefit that is obtained by joint efforts of all, so our approach is concrete and the sooner the CSTO adapts to modern realities, the better for all the participants in the collective security agreement, ”said Sargsyan.
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“We are trying, as I have already said, having arisen in completely different new realities, first of all, to concentrate our efforts on real threats, on joint struggle against these real threats. But, nevertheless, we cannot pass by things of such a global nature that pose a threat to the whole world, for example, we have repeatedly spoken about our rejection of deploying missile defense systems, placing weapons in space and so on. That is, on such fundamental global issues, we consider it possible to formulate our common approach, and we are doing this, ”said the President of the Russian Federation.
The organization now includes six countries: Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Tajikistan.
See the full version of the exclusive interview of the President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan today right after midnight on the TV channel “Mir” .
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The President of Armenia in the year of the 25th anniversary of the CSTO spoke about the modern role of the organization.
Photos: Press Service of the President of Russia
"The collective security agreement is not directed against anyone. The states that have signed have proceeded from the need to rally their efforts to ensure security in the CSTO zone, so this is not about private gain. And this is a collective benefit, a benefit that is obtained by joint efforts of all, so our approach is concrete and the sooner the CSTO adapts to modern realities, the better for all the participants in the collective security agreement, ”said Sargsyan.
The Russian leader Vladimir Putin also shared his thoughts on CSTO and security. >.
“We are trying, as I have already said, having arisen in completely different new realities, first of all, to concentrate our efforts on real threats, on joint struggle against these real threats. But, nevertheless, we cannot pass by things of such a global nature that pose a threat to the whole world, for example, we have repeatedly spoken about our rejection of deploying missile defense systems, placing weapons in space and so on. That is, on such fundamental global issues, we consider it possible to formulate our common approach, and we are doing this, ”said the President of the Russian Federation.
The organization now includes six countries: Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Tajikistan.
See the full version of the exclusive interview of the President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan today right after midnight on the TV channel “Mir” .
