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 Stanislav Zas had telephone conversations with the Presidents of the Republic of Belarus and the Republic of Kazakhstan
06.01.2022On January 6, 2022, the CSTO Secretary General Stanislav Zas had telephone conversations with the President of the Republic of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko and the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev.
They discussed the situation in the Republic of Kazakhstan and the implementation of the decision of the Collective Security Council to send the CSTO Collective Peacekeeping Forces to normalize the situation in that country. The President of the Republic of Belarus expressed his full support for the Republic of Kazakhstan. The President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, in turn, thanked the Organization for its assistance in overcoming the crisis and sending the CSTO CPF.
The main tasks of the CSTO Collective Peacekeeping Forces are to protect important state and military facilities, assist the law enforcement forces of the Republic of Kazakhstan in stabilizing the situation and returning it to the legal field.
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