28 April marks the Day of the CSTO Joint Staff. It should be recalled that on 28 April 2003, in Dushanbe, the Collective Security Council, guided by the need to establish a military staff body responsible for implementing the military component of the Collective Security Treaty, adopted the Decision “On the Establishment of the Joint Staff of the Collective Security Treaty Organization.”
On 27 April 2026, within the framework of the International Scientific and Practical Conference “Contours of a New Architecture of Collective Security: Current Issues of Information and Analytical Partnership within the CSTO,” held at MGIMO University of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, a round table entitled “Eurasian Analytical Platform: New Approaches in a New Geopolitical Reality” took place. During the event, Head of the Information and Public Relations Department of the CSTO Secretariat Yuriy Shuvalov delivered a presentation on “The Eurasian Analytical Network: A New Cognitive Architecture of Collective Security.”
The CSTO Secretariat held a meeting of the Acting Secretary General of the CSTO Valery Semerikov with the leadership of the Secretariat of the CSTO Parliamentary Assembly
06.03.2019
On March 6, 2019, a working meeting of the leadership of the CSTO Secretariat with the authorized representatives of the parliaments of the CSTO member states, headed by the Executive Secretary of the CSTO Parliamentary Assembly Peter Ryabukhin, was held at the headquarters of the Collective Security Treaty Organization. During the meeting, the Acting Secretary General of the CSTO, Valery Semerikov, informed the meeting participants about the activities of the CSTO at the current stage and the challenges facing the Organization. In his speech, the Executive Secretary of the CSTO Parliamentary Assembly focused on the activities of the Assembly in 2018 and plans for 2019. He particularly stressed the importance of work to bring together and harmonize the legislation of the CSTO member states in the area of ensuring the security of the CSTO member states and confronting contemporary challenges and threats.In general, the working meeting became a new stage in the way of improving the interaction between the CSTO Secretariat and the CSTO Parliamentary Assembly. Its participants recognized the mutual usefulness of such meetings and confirmed their readiness to hold them on a regular basis.
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CSTO spokesman Vladimir Zainetdinov
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