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On April 27 and 29, in Dushanbe, meetings of the Council of Defense Ministers and the Committee of Secretaries Security Councils of the CSTO will be held in person

The CSTO Military Committee has discussed the enhancing military cooperation between the CSTO member states, as well as the challenges and threats to military security in the Organization's area of responsibility

The CSTO Council of Ministers of Defense have discussed the military-political situation on the borders of the Organization, as well as proposals for jointly countering challenges and threats to collective security of a military nature

The Chiefs of General Staffs at a meeting of the CSTO Military Committee via videoconferencing discussed the challenges and threats to military security in the Caucasian, East European and Central Asian regions of the CSTO collective security

The CSTO Military Committee will discuss the challenges and threats to the military security of the CSTO member states on November 19

The CSTO Military Committee discussed issues of the development of military cooperation of the Collective Security Treaty Organization member states via video-conferencing

The CSTO Military Committee meeting to be held in St. Petersburg

A working meeting of the main operational departments of the general staffs of the armed forces of the CSTO member states was held in Kyrgyzstan

The 14th meeting of the CSTO Military Committee was held in Moscow. Chiefs of General Staffs discussed challenges and threats to military security in the Central Asian region

The Chiefs of the General Staffs of the armed forces of the CSTO member states at a meeting of the Military Committee in Moscow will discuss the development of military cooperation

The second staff negotiations on the preparation for the operational-strategic exercise "Combat Brotherhood-2019" with the CSTO Collective Rapid Reaction Forces and the divisions of material and technical support of the armed forces

26.10.2018

The CSTO Military Committee discussed the development of the Organization’s military cooperation at a meeting in Almaty

The Military Committee was established at the Council of Ministers of Defense of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (hereinafter – CMD) in accordance with clause 15 of the Regulations on the Council of Ministers of Defense of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, approved by the Collective Security Council Decision of 28 April 2003 “On the Regulations on the Bodies of the Collective Security Treaty Organization”, in order to prompt consider the issues of planning and use of forces and means of the collective security system of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (hereinafter - the Collective Security Treaty Organization Organization) and prepare the necessary CMD proposals.

General management of the Military Committee is carried out by the Council of Foreign Ministers.

In its activities, the Military Committee is guided by generally recognized principles and norms of international law, the Collective Security Treaty of May 15, 1992, the Charter of the CSTO of October 7, 2002, decisions of the Collective Security Council of the CSTO, the CMD and other regulatory acts governing the activities of the Organization, bilateral and multilateral international agreements on cooperation in the military sphere, of which the CSTO member states are parties.

Composition of the Military Committee

The members of the Military Committee are the Chiefs of the General Staffs of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Armenia, the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Russian Federation, the Republic of Tajikistan, and the Chief of the CSTO Joint Staff.

The Military Committee is headed by the Chairman of the Military Committee - Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation - First Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation.

The composition of the Military Committee includes (as of 19.10.2023)

Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Armenia Major General ASRYAN Edward Edisonovich

Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces - First Deputy Minister of Defense of the Republic of Belarus Major General GULEVICH Victor Vladimirovich

First Deputy Minister of Defense - Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Kazakhstan Lieutenant General KHUSAINOV Marat Rakhimovich

Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces - First Deputy Minister of Defense of the Kyrgyz Republic - Major General MUKAMBETOV Ruslan Mustafayevich

Chairman of the Military Committee, Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation - First Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Army General GERASIMOV Valery Vasilevich

Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces - First Deputy Minister of Defense of the Republic of Tajikistan Lieutenant General SOBIRZODA Emomali Abdurahim

Chief of the Joint Staff of the Collective Security Treaty Organization Colonel General SIDOROV Anatoly Alexeyevich