In Kazakhstan, a joint command-staff training with the CSTO Collective Peacekeeping Forces (CPF) began practicing combat training tasks at checkpoints, roadblocks and refugee reception points, escorting convoys and cargoes, and providing humanitarian assistance. On the eve of the training, Major General Almaz Dzhumakeyev, head of the training, presented the commander of the CPF with a mandate to prepare and conduct a peacekeeping operation.
Today, in the Republic of Kazakhstan, at the training range “Bereg”, the opening ceremony of the active phase of the command-staff training with the Peacekeeping Forces of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) “Indestructible Brotherhood-2024” was held.
On September 30, 2024, in Almaty, under the chairmanship of the First Vice-Minister of Health of the Republic of Kazakhstan T.S. Sultangaziev, the IV meeting of the Coordination Council of authorized bodies of the CSTO member states on biological security issues was held.
According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan, on September 26, 2024, under the chairmanship of the Deputy Prime Minister - Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan Murat Nurtleu, a working meeting of foreign ministers of the member states of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) was held. This meeting occurs annually on the margins of the UN General Assembly.
On 25-26 September 2024, the IV International Conference on the Spread of Extremist Ideology, organized by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, was held in Moscow.
CSTO Secretary General Yuri Khachaturov participated in the meeting of the OSCE Ministerial Council in Vienna
08.12.2017
On December 7-8, the CSTO Secretary General, Yuri Khachaturov, at the invitation of the Austrian office in the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), visited the Republic of Austria to attend the 24th meeting of the OSCE Ministerial Council.
He took part in the sessions of the Council of Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the OSCE participating States and spoke at an informal meeting of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the OSCE participating States, held in the form of a working lunch. For the first time, the OSCE Secretary General was provided to the OCT Secretary General.
In his speech, the CSTO Secretary General assessed the global threats to security and stability in Europe, informed the heads of the delegations of the OSCE 57 member states, as well as the countries and organizations that are its cooperation partners, about the multifaceted activities of the CSTO to counter contemporary challenges on the continent. Yuri Khachaturov stressed the readiness of the CSTO, which celebrated the 25th anniversary of the Collective Security Treaty this year, as well as 15 years of its creation on its basis as an international regional organization, to further strengthen interaction with partner international organizations, primarily the UN and the OSCE.
Yuri Khachaturov also attended a dinner given by the OSCE on December 7 for foreign ministers and heads of delegations of international organizations.
The OSCE Ministerial Council, which was opened by the Austrian Chairmanship, delivered by Austrian Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurtz, heard a message from the Secretary General of the Organization, T. Greminger, and at three plenary sessions discussed a wide range of current issues of the situation on the continent and European cooperation. At the closing session, the OSCE Chairman-in-Office and the current Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Austria and Italy spoke and approved the final documents adopted in accordance with the OSCE rule of consensus, including the decision to hold the next ministerial meeting in a year in Rome.
