On June 10, 2026, a regular meeting of the CSTO Council of Foreign Ministers was held in Kazan (Russian Federation) under the chairmanship of the Russian side, with the participation of CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov. CIS Deputy Secretary General Denis Trefilov and SCO Deputy Secretary General Oleg Kopylov were also invited to attend the meeting.
On June 9, 2026, a delegation of the Secretariat of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, headed by CSTO Deputy Secretary General Valery Semerikov, took part in the 19th Meeting of Heads of Lead Counter-Terrorism Units of the Competent Authorities of the CIS Member States and Heads of National Structures Responsible for Coordinating Counter-Terrorism and Counter-Extremism Activities. The event was organized by the Anti-Terrorism Center of the CIS Member States.
A working meeting between CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov and Director of the Institute of China and Contemporary Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences Kirill Babaev was held at the Secretariat of the Collective Security Treaty Organization.
From June 2 to 4, the Republic of Belarus hosted the second staff talks on the organization and conduct of the CSTO Peacekeeping Forces command-and-staff exercise “Indestructible Brotherhood 2026” and the special exercise “Barrier 2026” involving the CSTO Joint CBRN Protection and Medical Support Formation.
The CSTO Secretary General held a meeting on strategic forecasting of challenges and threats to collective security and analytical support of the Organization's activities
19.04.2023
On April 19, 2023, the CSTO Secretary General Imangali Tasmagambetov held a meeting on strategic forecasting of challenges and threats to collective security and analytical support of the Organization, which was attended by representatives of state authorities and leading Russian research and expert centers.
The CSTO Secretary General stressed that building the Organization's institutional capacity in the information-analytical sphere was enshrined as one of the priorities of the CSTO by the Republic of Belarus as this year's Chairmanship State.
During the event there was a detailed and engaged discussion of issues of interaction between the CSTO Secretariat and analytical structures of the member states that study the problems of international relations. In this regard, the CSTO Secretary General noted that there was an increasing need for the Organization to forecast trends in the development of the situation, both in its area of responsibility and in the world as a whole. There is a need more objectively, with the involvement of independent experts, to assess events, to identify trends, calculate their consequences and - to be proactive.
The meeting resulted in the signing of memorandums of cooperation between the CSTO Secretariat and the CIS Research Institute of Security Problems and the Institute of China and Modern Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
