On November 11, 2026, a session of the CSTO Collective Security Council was held under the chairmanship of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
On November 11, 2026, a meeting was held at the Kremlin between CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov and President of the Russian Federation and Chairman of the CSTO Collective Security Council Vladimir Putin.
On November 10, a discussion session entitled “Indivisible Biological Security in the CSTO Area” was held at the World Trade Center as part of the International Forum on Collective Security.
On November 10, a discussion session entitled “The CSTO: New Challenges and Prospects for Regional Cooperation” was held at the World Trade Center as part of the International Forum on Collective Security.
The traditional 14th Meeting of Senior Administrative Officials of the CSTO, CIS and SCO was held in Moscow on November 10, 2026. It was attended by CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov, CIS Secretary General Sergey Lebedev and SCO Secretary General Nurlan Yermekbayev.
Statement by the foreign ministers of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation member states on the current issues related to the exploration and use of outer space for peaceful purposes
24.06.2024June 21, 2024
Almaty
We, the ministers of foreign affairs of the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Russian Federation, and the Republic of Tajikistan,
realising the importance of maintaining international peace and security at the global and regional levels,
considering the growing risks of further militarisation of outer space and those of arms deployment in space, as well as the need to ensure long-term stability of space activities,
noting the general interest in facilitating the exploration and use of outer space for peaceful purposes, based on the norms of international law, including the Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, including the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies (1967),
recognising that the exploration and use of outer space, which is mankind’s common heritage, should be directed at benefitting all nations regardless of the degree of their economic and scientific development,
emphasising the need to solve the problems related to the risks to the long-term stability of space activities by the political and diplomatic methods,
recognising the need to develop universal approaches to international information exchanges on the situation in outer space in the interests of ensuring the safety of space operations,
stressing the need to enhance the level of transparency and trust between states, which help to address the tasks in the sphere of space exploration and use solely for peaceful purposes,
state the importance of a strict compliance with the existing legal regime providing for the exclusively peaceful use of outer space,
advocate the use of civilian space systems, including commercial ones, as well as the achievements of space science, technologies and services solely for declared peaceful purposes,
reaffirm the inadmissibility of using the civilian space systems and the related ground infrastructure for undeclared purposes,
stress the need for a higher level of coordinating interaction between our states at the relevant international venues,
agreed to intensify the dialogue on a broad range of issues related to strengthening international cooperation between the CSTO member states in the exploration and use of outer space for peaceful purposes,
are convinced that our joint efforts alone will be able to preserve outer space for future generations as a peaceful space free from armed conflicts and weapons of any type.
