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.
On the sidelines of the OSCE Ministerial Council meeting in Vienna, the CSTO Secretary General, Yuri Khachaturov, met with the OSCE Secretary General, Thomas Greming, on countering contemporary threats and challenges in Eurasia
08.12.2017
At the invitation of the Austrian Chairmanship of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) on a visit to Vienna to attend the 24th meeting of the OSCE Ministerial Council, the CSTO Secretary-General Yuri Khachaturov led the OSCE Ministerial Council on December 7-8 OSCE Secretary, Thomas Greming; Director of the OSCE Conflict Prevention Center, Marcel Peszko; and Head of the Transnational Threats Department (NTEC) of the OSCE Secretariat, Rasa Ostrauskaite.
During the meeting of the Secretaries-General, the third in recent months, the sides exchanged views on issues of mutual interest in the ongoing development of cooperation between the two organizations, reviewed its promising areas, and discussed a number of possible projects. With a significant commonality of approaches, a mutual disposition towards concrete actions and the development of a stable trend towards increasing mutual understanding, primarily on countering contemporary threats and challenges in Eurasia, was stated.
This line in relation to the tasks of preventing and resolving crises considered as priority by the CSTO and the OSCE, increasing the effectiveness of countering international terrorism, determined the course of the conversation between Yuri Khachaturov and Marcel Peszko and the Ostrauskite Race.
