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 UN experts and the CSTO Secretariat held consultations on cooperation in the field of peacekeeping via videoconferencing
26.03.2021
On March 25, this year, consultations of the CSTO Secretariat representatives with specialists of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations of the UN Secretariat were held at the expert level via videoconferencing.
In the course of the consultations, an exchange of views took place on the sequence of preparation steps and carrying out of certification procedure by the UN experts of training programs on peacekeeping topics of the Military Educational and Scientific Center of the Ground Forces "Combined Arms Order of Zhukov Academy of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation", which is the basic educational and methodological organization for training personnel of the CSTO Peacekeeping Forces.
The experts also discussed issues related to the aspects of registration of the CSTO consolidated peacekeeping formations in the UN Peacekeeping Potential Preparedness System.
One of the important results of the event was the confirmation of the preparedness for further cooperation on the issues of using the CSTO peacekeeping resources in the UN peacekeeping activities.
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