On 20 December, a joint training session was held between the duty shifts of the CSTO Crisis Response Center and the command posts of the defense and emergency ministries of the Organization's member states.
On 10 and 11 December, the Joint Staff of the Collective Security Treaty Organization hosted videoconference consultations of representatives of interested ministries and departments of the CSTO member states on the organization of joint training activities in 2026 for the CSTO collective security system's command and control bodies and formations.
On December 11, 2024, Taalatbek Masadykov, the CSTO Deputy Secretary General and Special Representative of the CSTO Secretary General for Peacekeeping, held a meeting with the delegation of the Monitoring Group (MG) of the UN Security Council Sanctions Committees 1267/1989/2253 on ISIS and “Al-Qaeda” and 1988 on the Taliban Movement.
On December 11, 2024, the 40th meeting of the Working Group on Afghanistan under the CSTO Ministerial Council was held with the participation of the CSTO Deputy Secretary General S. Ordabayev and the CSTO Deputy Secretary General T. Masadykov. The event was also attended by delegations of the Organization's member states and representatives of the UNOCT, the UNRCCA, the CIS ATC, the Coordination Service of the CIS Council of Commanders of Border Troops, the SCO RATS, and the ICRC.
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.
