On December 4, at the invitation of the Iranian side, a delegation from the Joint Staff of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, led by Chief of the Joint Staff Colonel General Andrei Serdyukov, took part in the final stage of joint anti-terrorism trainings conducted by the competent authorities of the member states of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization “Sahand-Anti-Terror 2025” in the Islamic Republic of Iran.
The CSTO Deputy Secretary General Valery Semerikov took part in the “BRICS+ 2025 Anti-Terrorism Conference: National and Regional Counter-Terrorism Strategies in the Context of Emerging Challenges and Security Threats”, held in Moscow.
A delegation from the CSTO Secretariat, led by the Deputy Secretary General Taalatbek Masadikov, took part from 1 to 5 December in the VIII Coordination Meeting of High-Level Representatives of the Secretariat of the Collective Security Treaty Organization and the International Committee of the Red Cross (hereinafter referred to as the Coordination Meeting) at the ICRC headquarters in Geneva.
On December 3, 2025, the 42nd meeting of the Working Group on Afghanistan under the CSTO Council of Foreign Ministers was held with the participation of CSTO Secretariat staff, delegations from member states of the Organization, representatives of the United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism, the UNRCCA, the CIS ATC, the SCO RATS, The CIS Council of Border Guard Commanders, and the ICRC.
On November 26 and 27, 2025, Minsk hosted the International Military Scientific Conference “Applied Aspects of Scientific Activity in the Field of State Defense and Security” organized by the Research Institute of the Armed Forces of the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Belarus. The event was attended by representatives of the CSTO Secretariat, the Executive Committee and Secretariat of the CIS CMD, a UN Special Rapporteur, delegations from the defense ministries of CSTO member states and a number of other countries.
STATEMENT of the Ministers for Foreign Affairs of the Collective Security Treaty Organization Member States on international security issues
10.06.2022
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We, the member states of the CSTO, express our deep concern at the continuing degradation of the international security system.
We consider it important to reaffirm our position on the assertion and strict observance of the principle of equl and indivisible security, enshrined, in particular, at the highest level in several documents of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, including the OSCE Charter for European Security in 1999 and the Astana Commemorative Declaration of the OSCE Summit in 2010. The principle is the inextricable link between the security of
The principle is that the security of each state is inextricably linked to that of all other states and that the security of one state cannot be strengthened at the expense of the security of others.
of other states is inadmissible. It is important to ensure its uniform interpretation among all OSCE participating States.
We emphasize that, in accordance with the documents listed above, no State, group of States or organization can be given primary responsibility for maintaining peace and stability. We are in favour of further strengthening the primary role of the United Nations Security Council in the maintenance of international peace and security entrusted to it by the Charter of the United Nations.
The CSTO member States call for building a world free of war and conflicts, violence and pressure, for the development of comprehensive, equal and mutually beneficial cooperation, and for the achievement of comprehensive, sustainable and cooperative security
taking into account the interests of all states and peoples.
10 June 2022
Yerevan city
