The Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov received the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the CSTO member states and the Secretary General of the Organization in Cholpon-Ata on June 30. The meeting was attended by the Foreign Ministers of Kyrgyzstan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Russia and Tajikistan.
On June 30, 2025, a regular meeting of the CSTO Council of Foreign Ministers was held in Cholpon-Ata (the Kyrgyz Republic) under the chairmanship of the Kyrgyz side, which was attended by the Organization's Secretary General Imangali Tasmagambetov.
Safar Umarzoda, Head of the Department for Countering Challenges and Threats of the CSTO Secretariat, took part in a special event (side-event) on "Countering Radicalization leading to terrorism and Extremism" organized by the Russian Federation on the margins of the OSCE Annual Conference on Security Review, where he reported on the measures taken by the CSTO on countering terrorism and extremism, and willingness to share the experience gained.
On June 19, 2025, in Bosteri, Issyk-Kul region of the Kyrgyz Republic, the XIX meeting of the Council of the Advisory Coordination Center of the Collective Security Treaty Organization on Computer Incident Response (CSTO CCC) was held, which was attended by delegations of representatives of national authorized bodies for responding to computer incidents of the CSTO member states.
On June 24-26, the second staff negotiations were held in the Kyrgyz Republic on the organization and conduct an operational meeting with the Command of the Collective Rapid Deployment Forces of the Central Asian Region (CAR CRDF) and a command and staff training with units of the CAR CRDF "Rubezh-2025", conducted as part of the joint operational and strategic training "Combat Brotherhood-2025".
On November 5, 2019, the XII plenary session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Collective Security Treaty Organization was held in Yerevan
06.11.2019
On November 5, 2019, the outgoing twelfth plenary meeting of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Collective Security Treaty Organization was held in Yerevan. The meeting was attended by the CSTO Acting Secretary General, Valery Semerikov.
Assessing the military-political situation in the world, he said that against the backdrop of growing conflict potential, the real danger of dismantling the existing architecture of international security, a crisis of confidence and confrontation, the likelihood of both local and large-scale armed conflicts significantly increases.
In his speech, Valery Semerikov also noted that today there is a very important and great work to implement the decision of the Collective Security Council of the Organization on the status of the CSTO Observer and CSTO Partner.
“I am sure that the creation of these institutions will allow us to work more effectively in many areas of activity, increase the credibility and image of the CSTO on the world stage, ” Valery Semerikov emphasized. “I took this opportunity to note with satisfaction our interaction with the CSTO Parliamentary Assembly and its Secretariat and committees."
The participants in the plenary session unanimously elected Vyacheslav Volodin as Chairman of the CSTO Parliamentary Assembly, and Sergey Pospelov, whose duties he had been in charge of since May this year, as its Chairperson.
The CSTO Parliamentary Assembly adopted model legislative acts and recommendations introduced at the initiative of the standing committees of the CSTO Parliamentary Assembly:
- CSTO Model Law “On Non-State Entities for Ensuring National Security”;
recommendations:
- on improving the national legislation of the CSTO member states in the field of the functioning of collective peacekeeping forces;
- on approximation of the legislation of the CSTO member states on property confiscation in the interests of combating corruption, the financing of terrorism and other types of crimes;
- on harmonization of the legislation of the CSTO member states on ensuring internal stability and counteracting technologies of external destructive impact, aimed at destabilizing the socio-political situation;
- to provide collective humanitarian assistance in response to emerging crisis situations in the territory of the CSTO member states;
- to improve the national legislation of the CSTO member states in the field of countering the spread of Nazism and its manifestations;
- a recommendation list of corpus delicti and administrative offenses in the field of ensuring the information security of individuals, society and the state for the CSTO member states.
The CSTO Parliamentary Assembly forwarded the adopted model legislative acts and recommendations to the parliaments of the CSTO member states for use in improving the legislation of the Organization's member states.
The parliamentarians made amendments and additions to article 9 of the Provisional Regulation on the Parliamentary Assembly of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (March 30, 2007).
