On 13 February, a traditional meeting was held in Moscow between the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergey Lavrov and the chairs of the parliamentary committees (commissions) of the CSTO member states responsible for international relations, defense and security. CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov and ambassadors of the Organization’s member states also took part in the event.
CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov addressed the Fifth meeting of the chairs of the parliamentary committees (commissions) of the CSTO member states responsible for international relations, defense and security.
Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, Chairman of the CSTO Committee of Secretaries of Security Councils (CSSC) Sergey Shoigu gave an extensive interview to the Interfax news agency, in which he commented on the key areas of the Organization’s activities in 2026.
On 12 February, a briefing was held at the CSTO Crisis Response Center by Chief of the CSTO Joint Staff Colonel General Andrey Nikolaevich Serdyukov on the topic “Results of the joint training of command and control bodies and forces of the CSTO collective security system in 2025 and tasks for 2026.”
The CSTO Secretary General Stanislav Zas took part in the OSCE ministerial meeting in Stockholm and in the course of the discussion spoke on the situation in Afghanistan
03.12.2021
On December 2 to 3, 2021, by the invitation of the Chairperson-in-Office of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, Swedish Foreign Minister Ann Linde, the CSTO Secretary General Stanislav Zas participated in the 28th meeting of the OSCE Ministerial Council and in the Ministerial meeting of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the CSTO member States held “as margin notes” of the OSCE CFM by the initiative of the Armenian Chairmanship.
In the course of the meeting, Stanislav Zas also spoke about the implications of development in Afghanistan for the OSCE region. "As margin notes” of the OSCE CFM, he had a working meeting with the OSCE Secretary General Helga Schmid, during which the two parties discussed prospects for interaction between the two regional organizations.
The CSTO Secretary General also discussed current issues of cooperation development in the CSTO format in a series of bilateral meetings with the foreign ministers of the CSTO member States.
