On May 7, the CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov held a working meeting in Moscow at the CSTO Joint Staff aimed at improving issues related to crisis response and expert cooperation.
On May 6, 2026, a meeting was held at the CSTO Secretariat between the CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykovand newly appointed Permanent and Plenipotentiary Representative of the Republic of Belarus to the CSTO Vladimir Bespaly.
28 April marks the Day of the CSTO Joint Staff. It should be recalled that on 28 April 2003, in Dushanbe, the Collective Security Council, guided by the need to establish a military staff body responsible for implementing the military component of the Collective Security Treaty, adopted the Decision “On the Establishment of the Joint Staff of the Collective Security Treaty Organization.”
A delegation of servicemen of the CSTO member states and working bodies of the Organization laid flowers at the Eternal Flame memorial in Almaty in the Park of the 28 Panfilov Guardsmen
On October 4 this year, Colonel General Anatoly Sidorov, Head of the CSTO Joint Staff, Takhir Khayruloyev, the CSTO Deputy Secretary General, and Almaz Djumakeev, Commander of the Airborne Assault Troops of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Kazakhstan, laid wreaths and flowers at the Eternal Flame Memorial in the 28 Panfilov Guardsmen's Park in Almaty. The ceremony was also attended by representatives of contingents of armed forces of the CSTO member states who came to participate in the trainings of the Collective Forces "Cooperation-2022", "Search-2022", "Echelon-2022". The anthem of Kazakhstan was played and a moment of silence was observed. The ceremony was followed by the ceremonial march of the guard of honor.
The delegation of servicemen of the CSTO member states visited the Museum of the National Military Patriotic Center, the head of which is the granddaughter of the legendary Major General Ivan Panfilov, Alua Baykadamova, where the officers got acquainted with the historical exhibits of the Almaty garrison.
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Joint Press Center of the CSTO trainings