The Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov received the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the CSTO member states and the Secretary General of the Organization in Cholpon-Ata on June 30. The meeting was attended by the Foreign Ministers of Kyrgyzstan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Russia and Tajikistan.
On June 30, 2025, a regular meeting of the CSTO Council of Foreign Ministers was held in Cholpon-Ata (the Kyrgyz Republic) under the chairmanship of the Kyrgyz side, which was attended by the Organization's Secretary General Imangali Tasmagambetov.
Safar Umarzoda, Head of the Department for Countering Challenges and Threats of the CSTO Secretariat, took part in a special event (side-event) on "Countering Radicalization leading to terrorism and Extremism" organized by the Russian Federation on the margins of the OSCE Annual Conference on Security Review, where he reported on the measures taken by the CSTO on countering terrorism and extremism, and willingness to share the experience gained.
On June 19, 2025, in Bosteri, Issyk-Kul region of the Kyrgyz Republic, the XIX meeting of the Council of the Advisory Coordination Center of the Collective Security Treaty Organization on Computer Incident Response (CSTO CCC) was held, which was attended by delegations of representatives of national authorized bodies for responding to computer incidents of the CSTO member states.
On June 24-26, the second staff negotiations were held in the Kyrgyz Republic on the organization and conduct an operational meeting with the Command of the Collective Rapid Deployment Forces of the Central Asian Region (CAR CRDF) and a command and staff training with units of the CAR CRDF "Rubezh-2025", conducted as part of the joint operational and strategic training "Combat Brotherhood-2025".
The CSTO Secretary General Imangali Tasmagambetov outlined the priorities of the CSTO Joint Staff activities for 2024
12.01.2024
The CSTO Secretary General Imangali Tasmagambetov took part in summarizing the results of the CSTO Joint Staff activities for 2023 and outlined the priorities of the Joint Staff activities for 2024.
Addressing the personnel of the Joint Staff, Imangali Tasmagambetov noted that the goals set for 2023 had been achieved to a large extent thanks to the great contribution of the Organization’s member states to strengthening military cooperation in the CSTO format, their constructive approach in reaching consensus, and the efforts of the collective of the CSTO Joint Staff.
Colonel General Andrei Serdyukov, Chief of the CSTO Joint Staff, in his report, noted that the main efforts of the Joint Staff in 2023 were focused on the implementation of tasks to improve the speed of decision-making on the use of the forces and means of the CSTO collective security system, the further development of the components of the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces) and their preparation for the fulfilment of their earmarked tasks, as well as the improvement of management systems and comprehensive support.
Andrei Serdyukov also noted that the improvement of the crisis response system was seen as one of the most important areas of activity and was carried out taking into account the experience of the Organization’s response to the situation in the Republic of Kazakhstan in January 2022. Together with the CSTO Secretariat, proposals were prepared to amend the existing normative documents on crisis response. In November 2023, the CSTO Collective Security Council approved a new version of these documents.
Among the priority tasks for 2024, the Chief of the CSTO Joint Staff noted the improvement of the regulatory legal framework governing the development of the CSTO's military component, the continuation of work with the CSTO Secretariat and defense agencies to improve the crisis response system, the qualitative preparation and successful conduct of joint operational and combat training activities, and participation in the preparation and conduct of meetings of the Council of Defense Ministers and the CSTO Military Committee.
Summing up the event, Imangali Tasmagambetov stressed that the implementation of the priorities of the Republic of Kazakhstan during the presidency of the Organization in 2024, as well as the decisions of the November 2023 session of the CSTO Collective Security Council implied new multidimensional tasks to improve the CSTO military component, for their solution there was readiness and the necessary potential.
