On May 26 of this year, a round table entitled “35 Years of the Commonwealth of Independent States: Results, Tasks, and Prospects” was held at the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation. The event was attended by heads of integration structures in the post-Soviet space, representatives of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as well as representatives of the embassies of CIS countries in Russia. Opening remarks were delivered by the moderator, Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on International Affairs Grigory Karasin.
On May 26, 2026, a regular meeting of the CSTO Committee of Secretaries of Security Councils (CSSC) was held in Moscow under the chairmanship of the Russian side, with the participation of CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov. The participants conducted a substantive exchange of views on issues related to strengthening security in the CSTO area of responsibility.
On May 25, 2026, a meeting was held at the CSTO Secretariat between CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov, CSTO Deputy Secretary General Valery Semerikov, and Acting Director of the African Union Counter-Terrorism Centre Idriss Mounir Lallali.
On May 25, 2026, a meeting took place at the Secretariat of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) between CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov and the Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the Russian Federation, Kazem Jalali.
On May 20, consultations of representatives (experts) of the defense agencies of the CSTO member states aimed at improving air defense and developing the CSTO Collective Aviation Forces were held via videoconference at the CSTO Joint Staff headquarters.
The CSTO Secretariat held a meeting of the Acting Secretary General of the CSTO Valery Semerikov with the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Tajikistan to the Russian Federation
11.03.2019On March 11, 2019, Valery Semerikov, Acting Secretary General of the CSTO, met with the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Tajikistan to the Russian Federation Imomuddin Sattorov at the CSTO Secretariat.
During the meeting, issues relevant to Tajikistan were discussed, in particular, measures aimed at reducing tensions in the Tajik-Afghan border area, implementing the decision of the Collective Security Council to strengthen the border with Afghanistan, the development and coordination of the Target interstate program to strengthen the Tajik-Afghan border in the CSTO format . A separate topic of the meeting was the discussion of the issue of combating terrorism and extremism.
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Tajikistan to the Russian Federation I.Sattorov handed over an official invitation to Acting Secretary General of the CSTO V.Semerikov to attend the high-level conference on the theme “International and regional cooperation in the fight against terrorism and its sources of financing, including drug trafficking and organized crime ”, which will be held May 16-17, 2019 in the city of Dushanbe, Tajikistan.
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