Video message from Valery Semerikov, the CSTO Deputy Secretary General, to participants in a thematic event organized by Russia “on the margins” of the 69th session of the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs “Regional Efforts to Combat Drug Crime: Best Practices of the CSTO, the SCO, and the CIS”
A working meeting chaired by Lieutenant General Anatoly Yakovlev, Head of the CSTO Troop Deployment Planning Department (Collective Forces), was held with the participation of representatives of the defense ministries of the Republic of Belarus (via videoconferencing), the Russian Federation, and the CSTO Joint Staff.
On 5 March 2026, a working meeting was held at the Secretariat of the Collective Security Treaty Organization between CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov and Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Belarus to the Russian Federation Yuri Seliverstov.
On 4 March, Secretary of the Security Council of the Kyrgyz Republic Adilet Orozbekov presented certificates of advanced training in the field of “Information Security of Automated Systems” to civil servants.
The Protocol amending the Agreement on Cooperation of the CSTO Member States in the Field of Transportation of Military and Other Formations, Their Movable Property, as well as Military Products, and the Protocol amending the Agreement on the Status of Formations of Forces and Means of the CSTO Collective Security System, signed during the session of the CSTO Collective Security Council in Astana on 28 November 2024, have entered into force.
CSTO Secretary General Yury Khachaturov met with OSCE Secretary General Thomas Greming on September 20, 2017 in New York
21.09.2017On September 20, 2017, the Secretary-General of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, Yu.G. Khachaturov, on the margins of the 72nd session of the United Nations General Assembly, met with the Secretary-General of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, Thomas Greminger.
In the conversation that took place - the first after their appointment to their posts - the issues of interaction between the two Organizations in ensuring peace and stability in the regions of their responsibility were discussed. Noting with satisfaction the ongoing development of contacts between the CSTO and OSCE Secretariats in recent years, the parties confirmed that there is a serious potential for expanding cooperation, primarily in the priority direction for both Organizations to counter contemporary challenges and threats.
The interlocutors exchanged views on a number of specific projects on the anti-terrorism and anti-drug tracks. Agreed to continue contacts.
