On August 17–19, at the invitation of Colonel General Alexander Manilov, Chairman of the Coordination Service of the Council of Border Troops Commanders of the CIS, a delegation of the CSTO Joint Staff headed by Colonel General Andrey Serdyukov took part in international events held in the area of responsibility of the Border Directorate of the Russian Federal Security Service for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region.
On August 14, consultations were held via videoconference at the CSTO Joint Staff with representatives of relevant ministries and agencies of the CSTO member states on organizing joint training activities for command and control bodies and formations of the CSTO collective security system in 2027.
On July 15, 2026, the High-Level Regional Meeting “Enhancing Capacities to Prevent the Supply of Weapons to Terrorists in Central Asia” was held in Moscow, organized by the United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism with the participation of the Russian side.
On July 14, 2026, a working meeting was held at the CSTO Secretariat between CSTO Deputy Secretary General Valery Semerikov and UN Assistant Secretary-General Alexander Zuev.
The XXII meeting of the CSTO Interstate Commission on Military-Economic Cooperation was held
20.09.2024
The XXII meeting of the Interstate Commission on Military-Economic Cooperation of the Collective Security Treaty Organization was held in Bishkek (the Kyrgyz Republic) on 20 September 2024.
The meeting participants have reviewed the results of the Commission's work on the implementation of the decisions of the XXI ICWEC meeting held in April last year in Dushanbe. Based on the results of the exchange of views, a number of important decisions were adopted on the further development of military-economic cooperation in the CSTO format.
In particular, agreement has been completed on the draft Concept for the development of cooperation and integration ties between enterprises and organizations of the defense-industrial (military-industrial) complexes of the member states. The draft decision of the CSTO Collective Security Council on this issue after it interstate coordination in the CSTO member states will be submitted in accordance with the established procedure by the CSTO Collective Security Council.
Decisions have been taken on the establishment of an interstate system for cataloguing supplies for the armed forces of the CSTO member states and on the mutual protection of rights to the results of intellectual activity obtained and used in the course of military-economic cooperation within the CSTO.
The Commission approved the List of international exhibitions to be held in 2025-2026, at which expositions of military, dual-use and special-purpose products and technologies of the CSTO member states may be formed.
In connection with the forthcoming anniversary of the activities of the CSTO Interstate Commission on Military-Economic Cooperation in June 2025 - the 20th anniversary of its establishment - it was decided to hold in 2025 the CSTO Second Military-Economic Conference with a view to summing up the results of the work over the past period and defining tasks for the further development of military-economic cooperation in the Organization's format.
The Commission's Work Plan for 2025 was also approved.
It was decided to hold the next XXIII ICWEC meeting in September-October 2025 in the Republic of Kazakhstan.
Очередное ХХIII заседание МКВЭС решено провести в сентябре –октябре 2025 года в Республике Казахстан.
