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.
The 21st anniversary of the CSTO Joint Staff establishment
28.04.2024
Today is the anniversary of the establishment of the Joint Staff of the Collective Security Treaty Organization. On 28 April 2003, in the city of Dushanbe, the Collective Security Council, guided by the need to establish a military staff body responsible for the implementation of the tasks of the military component of the Collective Security Treaty, decided to establish a permanent working body - the CSTO Joint Staff.
The Joint Staff is entrusted with tasks relating to the formation, functioning and use of the Troops (Collective Forces), the preparation and conduct of joint operational and combat training activities together with the defense agencies of the Organization's member states, military and technical cooperation, the coordination of joint training of personnel and specialists for the armed forces of the member states, and the organization of the functioning of the CSTO Crisis Response Centre.
The main efforts in the activities of the multinational team of the Joint Staff, headed by Colonel General Andrei Serdyukov, are focused on organizing the implementation of decisions by the heads of the CSTO member states and heads of defense agencies on the development of the military component of the Organization.
Particular attention is being paid to the further improvement of the forces and means of the CSTO collective security system. The CSTO Collective Rapid Reaction Forces, the CSTO Peacekeeping Forces, the CSTO Collective Aviation Forces and the CSTO Collective Rapid Deployment Forces for the Central Asian region are being further developed.
Targeted work is continuing to improve the regulatory legal framework governing the training and use of the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces), the organization of command, logistical and medical support, the simplification of procedures for the transportation of national formations and their equipping with modern and advanced models of weapons, military and special equipment.
The priority tasks of the CSTO Joint Staff are also the high-quality preparation and successful conduct of joint operational and combat training activities, including a set of joint and special trainings planned for this fall on the territories of the Kyrgyz Republic, the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Republic of Tajikistan.
