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 is on a working visit to the Republic of Tajikistan
29.01.2025
On January 29, in Dushanbe, the CSTO Secretary General Imangali Tasmagambetov had a meeting with the President of the Republic of Tajikistan Emomali Rakhmon.
The sides have discussed the tasks of cooperation within the CSTO. There was a thorough exchange of views on the situation in the Organization's zone of responsibility and along its perimeter. The sides discussed topical issues on the regional and international agenda.
President of the Republic of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon emphasized the importance of timely implementation of the CSTO Special Interstate Policy for strengthening sections of the Tajik-Afghan Border, which was approved by the CSTO Collective Security Council on November 28, 2024, in Astana, expressing confidence that effective cooperation in this direction would contribute to ensuring regional security.
During the conversation, attention was focused on further strengthening comprehensive work within the Organization to counter challenges and threats to security, in particular terrorism, extremism, drug trafficking, cybercrime and transnational organized crime.
The CSTO Secretary General Imangali Tasmagambetov also met with Minister of Foreign Affairs Sirojiddin Mukhriddin, Commander of the Border Troops of the State Committee for National Security Major General Rajab Murodali Rajabzoda and Deputy Minister of Industry and New Technologies of the Republic of Tajikistan Aziz Nazar Savzali.
