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.”
On 27 April 2026, within the framework of the International Scientific and Practical Conference “Contours of a New Architecture of Collective Security: Current Issues of Information and Analytical Partnership within the CSTO,” held at MGIMO University of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, a round table entitled “Eurasian Analytical Platform: New Approaches in a New Geopolitical Reality” took place. During the event, Head of the Information and Public Relations Department of the CSTO Secretariat Yuriy Shuvalov delivered a presentation on “The Eurasian Analytical Network: A New Cognitive Architecture of Collective Security.”
CSTO Secretariat experts at the Vienna International Center participate in the 63rd session of the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs, which runs from March 2 to 6
02.03.2020The experts of the CSTO Secretariat at the Vienna International Center are taking part in the 63rd session of the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs, which is held here from March 2 to 6.
At the forum, on the initiative of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and with the assistance of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs, the CSTO Secretariat launched a photo exhibition and organized a presentation reflecting the progress and results of anti-drug activities within the Organization since 2017.
Information is also provided on training for anti-drug services in the basic educational institutions of the CSTO member states - the All-Russian Institute for Advanced Studies of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia and the Siberian Law Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. (Decisions to give this high status were made by the heads of the CSTO member states at the session of the Collective Security Council on June 23, 2006 Minsk and Moscow on December 23, 2014)
The interaction of the two international structures is carried out within the framework of the Protocol on Cooperation between the CSTO Secretariat and the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, signed in Vienna on 04/05/2006.
