On June 18, 2026, the 24th Meeting of the Interstate Commission for Military-Economic Cooperation of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (ICMEC CSTO) was held in Minsk on the sidelines of the 3rd International Security Industry Exhibition “National Security. Belarus 2026”. The meeting was chaired by Dmitry Stefanovich, Head of the Belarusian National Section of the ICMEC and Deputy Chairman of the State Authority for Military Industry of the Republic of Belarus.
On June 18, 2026, the 2nd Military-Economic Conference of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, entitled “Development of Cooperation among the Defense Industries (Military-Industrial Complexes) of the CSTO Member States: 20 Years of Practical Cooperation”, was held in Minsk on the sidelines of the 3rd International Security Industry Exhibition “National Security. Belarus 2026”. The event brought together representatives of relevant ministries, agencies, defense enterprises, and other institutions and organizations of the CSTO member states.
A delegation of the CSTO Secretariat, headed by CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov, is taking part in the 3rd International Security Industry Exhibition “National Security. Belarus 2026”, being held in Minsk from June 17 to 19, 2026.
Regular meeting of the Working Group on Electronic Warfare under the CSTO Council of Defense Ministers held in Saint Petersburg
On April 16-17, 2025, a meeting of the Working Group on Military-Economic Cooperation under the Chairman of the CSTO Interstate Commission on Military-Economic Cooperation was held.
The meeting was held in the city of Moscow at the CSTO Joint Staff under the chairmanship of Viktor Zinoviev, Secretary of the CSTO Interstate Commission on Military-Economic Cooperation (ICMEC, Commission).
The meeting participants reviewed the progress in implementing the decisions of the XXII ICMEC meeting held in September 2024 in Bishkek (the Kyrgyz Republic), as well as discussed the range of issues to be submitted to the XXIII meeting of the Commission in September-October of the current year in the Republic of Kazakhstan.
In the course of the work, issues related to the organization of personnel training for enterprises of the defense-industrial (military-industrial) complexes of the CSTO member states, the establishment of an interstate system for cataloguing supplies for the armed forces, and the provision of mutual protection of rights to the results of intellectual activity obtained and used in the course of military-economic cooperation in the CSTO format were considered.
In the process of discussing other issues on the Agenda of the meeting, it was deemed advisable to enhance the effectiveness of measures of a practical nature aimed at further developing military and economic cooperation within the Collective Security Treaty Organization.