From June 2 to 4, the Republic of Belarus hosted the second staff talks on the organization and conduct of the CSTO Peacekeeping Forces command-and-staff exercise “Indestructible Brotherhood 2026” and the special exercise “Barrier 2026” involving the CSTO Joint CBRN Protection and Medical Support Formation.
On June 3, 2026, a regular meeting of the CSTO Council of Defense Ministers (CDM) was held at the Patriot Central Park of the Russian Ministry of Defense under the chairmanship of the Russian side. The meeting was attended by CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov and Chief of the CSTO Joint Staff Andrey Serdyukov.
From June 1 to 3, Saratov (Russian Federation) is hosting a series of events involving the member states of the Collective Security Treaty Organization aimed at strengthening the collective response system to biological threats.
On June 1, 2026, consultations at the deputy foreign minister level of the CSTO member states were held in Moscow.
On May 28, 2026, CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov took part in the International Security Forum held under the auspices of the Security Council of the Russian Federation. More than 150 delegations from 120 countries participated in the event.
A meeting of the Working Group on Military-Economic Cooperation under the Chairman of the CSTO Interstate Commission on Military-Economic Cooperation was held on 17-18 April 2024
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The meeting was held in the city of Moscow under the chairmanship of Viktor Zinoviev, Secretary of the CSTO Interstate Commission on Military-Economic Cooperation (ICMEC, Commission).
The meeting participants have reviewed the implementation of the decisions of the XXI ICMEC meeting held in April 2023 in Dushanbe of the Republic of Tajikistan, as well as discussed the range of issues to be submitted to the XXII meeting of the Commission in September this year in the Kyrgyz Republic.
An important result of the work was the finalization of draft documents on the development of multilateral cooperation between enterprises and organizations of the defense-industrial (military-industrial) complexes of CSTO member states, the conduct of research and development work within the framework of the CSTO, and issues 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.
The possibility of organizing the training of engineering and technical personnel for defense enterprises of CSTO member states has also been considered, on the basis of which appropriate proposals have been drawn up for consideration within the framework of the CSTO Intestate Commission on Military-Economic Cooperation in order to organize such work on a systematic basis.
As a result of the discussion of the issues on the Agenda of the meeting, it was deemed necessary to continue to coordinate the draft documents on the establishment of an interstate system for cataloguing supplies for the armed forces of CSTO member states.
In addition, the draft Work Plan of the Commission for 2025 was agreed upon.
