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 Stanislav Zas discussed cooperation in the military-political sphere with the Minister of Defense of the Republic of Serbia Aleksandar Vulin
05.09.2020
On September 5, 2020, the CSTO Secretariat (Moscow) hosted a working meeting between the CSTO Secretary General Stanislav Zas and the Minister of Defense of the Republic of Serbia Aleksandar Vulin.
It was also attended by the Chief of the CSTO Joint Staff Colonel-General Anatoly Sidorov, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Serbia to the Russian Federation Miroslav Lazanski, other officials of the Ministry of Defense of Serbia and the CSTO Secretariat.
Stanislav Zas noted with satisfaction that the development of relations between the CSTO and Serbia shows their growing role in strengthening European security. “The scale and direction of our interaction in recent years shows that cooperation between the CSTO and the Republic of Serbia is becoming one of the most important areas of activity of our Organization, which in the future can transform into a qualitatively new partnership,” the CSTO Secretary General said.
In the course of the meeting, the parties expressed concern over the difficult military-political situation in Eastern Europe, as well as the high activity of extremist and terrorist groups in Central Asia.
It was noted that in this situation, the ability to quickly respond to crises, as well as any aggressive actions, is of decisive importance in ensuring the military security of the CSTO member states, as well as friendly countries.
The Serbian Defense Minister stressed the desire to develop cooperation with the CSTO in the field of peacekeeping, training military personnel, as well as youth policy. “We attach great importance to the participation of Serbian military personnel in events both within the framework of the CSTO and on a bilateral basis with the member states of the Organization,” Stanislav Zas said.
The parties discussed the participation of representatives of the Republic of Serbia in the command-staff training with the CSTO Peacekeeping Forces "Indestructible Brotherhood-2020" and expressed their readiness to continue the practice of inviting Serbian servicemen to joint training events within the CSTO.
An important result of the meeting was the confirmation of mutual interest in strengthening long-term relations between the CSTO and Serbia.
At the end of the meeting, the CSTO Secretary General expressed his gratitude to the Minister of Defense of the Republic of Serbia and the entire Serbian people for the preservation of historical monuments and memorials, as well as the sacred memory of the heroes of the Great Patriotic War and the feat of our peoples in the victory over fascism.
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