On 13 November 2023, the XVI meeting of the Council of the Collective Security Treaty Organization's Consultative Coordination Centre for Responding to Computer Incidents (CSTO CCC) was held in Moscow, with the participation of leading experts and representatives of the national authorized bodies for Responding to Computer Incidents of the CSTO member states.
A meeting of the CSTO Collective Security Council was held in Minsk on 23 November.
The heads of states have discussed in detail current problems of international and regional security and the main results of the activities of the CSTO during the inter-sessional period.
A meeting of the heads of the Collective Security Treaty Organization member states under the chairmanship of the President of the Republic of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko has begun in Minsk in the narrow format.
On 22 November 2023, in Minsk, a joint meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers, the Council of Defense Ministers and the Committee of Secretaries of the Security Councils of the CSTO was held. Representatives of the Republic of Armenia did not take part in the meeting.
In accordance with the Action Plan for the implementation of the decisions of the November 20-22 session of the CSTO CSC and the fulfilment of the priority areas of the Organization’s activities, two documents relevant to the stabilization of the situation in the South Caucasus have been developed so far under the chairmanship of the Republic of Belarus.
The CSTO Secretary General and the Head of the CIS ATC have discussed cooperation in countering terrorism and extremism
On February 2, this year, the CSTO Secretary General Stanislav Zas and the new head of the Commonwealth of Independent States' Anti-Terrorism Center, Evgeny Sysoyev, met in Moscow. The meeting was also attended by the Deputy Secretary General Valery Semerikov, the First Deputy Head of the CIS ATC - representative of the Council of Ministers of Internal Affairs of the CIS member States Zhanat Saypoldayev, the Deputy Head of the CIS ATC - representative of the Council of Defense Ministers of the CIS member States Pavel Tikhonov, and the Deputy Head of the CIS ATC - representative of the Council of Border Guard Troops Commander Aibek Kutmanov.
During the meeting the parties exchanged views on tendencies and condition of operational situation in the zones of responsibility of organizations and discussed practical cooperation of the CSTO with the CIS ATC in the sphere of combating terrorism and extremism.
The CSTO Secretary General and the Head of the CIS ATC stressed the importance of consolidating joint efforts in the face of growing terrorist threats and expressed interest in expanding bilateral cooperation.
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