A working meeting between CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov and Vasily Khristoforov, Director of the Institute of International Relations and Political Sciences of the Russian State University for the Humanities (RSUH) and Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, was held at the Secretariat of the Collective Security Treaty Organization.
On June 12, 2026, a conference entitled “Central Asia – the Core of the SCO: A Space of Peace and Shared Development” was held in Dushanbe under the auspices of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Tajikistan. Acting CSTO Deputy Secretary General Samat Ordabayev took part in the event.
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.
The CSTO Secretary General Stanislav Zas met with the Head of the CIS Anti-Terrorism Center Andrei Novikov
29.01.2020
January 29, 2020, the CSTO Secretariat hosted a meeting between the CSTO Secretary General Stanislav Zas and the Head of the Anti-Terrorism Center of the Commonwealth of Independent States Andrei Novikov. The meeting was attended by Deputy Secretary General Valery Semerikov and Deputy Head of the CIS ATC - representative of the Council of Ministers of Defense of the CIS member states Sergey Dudko.
Stanislav Zas made a number of proposals on practical cooperation in the fight against terrorism. “We have signed a Memorandum of Cooperation between the CSTO Secretariat and the CIS ATC, under which we can carry out our interaction. In particular, we are interested in the participation of representatives of the CIS ATC in the exercises of special forces formations included in the CSTO Collective Rapid Reaction Forces, ” said the CSTO Secretary General.
Andrei Novikov, in turn, noted that the CIS ATC coordinates the search for criminals put on the wanted list for crimes of a terrorist and extremist nature, there are more than 10,000 of them in the ATC database, more than 5,000 of them are terrorist fighters who participated in military operations as part of international terrorist organizations outside the Commonwealth countries.
“We are actively cooperating with Interpol, the EAG, and the SCO RATS, and in 2018 we signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UN Counter-Terrorism Directorate,” said the Head of the CIS ATC. He also expressed interest in attracting the military potential of the CSTO for use in anti-terrorist events held through CIS ATC.
“I believe that there is a need to develop cooperation between the military of the CSTO member states and the special forces of law enforcement agencies and special services of the countries participating in the Commonwealth during our annual CIS trainings, - “Anti-error, ”Andrei Novikov expressed his opinion.
Also during the meeting, the issue of forming a Unified List of organizations recognized as terrorist in the CSTO member states was discussed.
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