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.”
The CSTO Secretary General Imangali Tasmagambetov met with the Belarusian Defense Minister Viktor Khrenin
13.02.2023
On February 13, this year, the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Belarus hosted a bilateral meeting between the Minister of Defense of the Republic of Belarus, Lieutenant General Viktor Khrenin, and the CSTO Secretary General Imangali Tasmagambetov.
According to the press service of the Belarusian Defense Ministry, the Belarusian Defense Minister congratulated I. Tasmagambetov on his appointment as Secretary General of the CSTO.
During the meeting Viktor Khrenin briefed Imangali Tasmagambetov on the current military and political situation in the East European region of collective security, and also informed him about the priorities of the CSTO activities during Belarus' presidency in the Organization in 2023.
Among the main priorities of the Belarusian presidency the following were mentioned: improving the readiness of components of troops (collective forces) of the CSTO to fulfill earmarked tasks, strengthening military and technical cooperation of the member states and building the institutional capacity of the Organization in the information and analytical sphere.
Joint trainings (“Search-2023”, “Interaction-2023”, “Echelon-2023”, “Barrier-2023”) were noted as the main activities of operational and combat training, which are also planned in the Republic of Belarus during its presidency.
At the end of the meeting, the parties reaffirmed their readiness to further develop constructive dialogue in the format of the Organization.
