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 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.
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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.
