On 20 April 2026, a meeting of the Council of the CSTO Parliamentary Assembly was held in Moscow under the chairmanship of the Russian side. During the meeting, CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov delivered a report entitled “On the progress in implementing the decisions of the November (2025) session of the CSTO Collective Security Council and measures taken to counter challenges and threats to collective security.”
On 17 April 2026, a working meeting was held at the CSTO Secretariat between Acting CSTO Deputy Secretary General Samat Ordabaev and the UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Central Asia, Head of the United Nations Regional Centre for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia (UNRCCA), Kaha Imnadze.
On 17 April 2026, the 17th meeting of the Working Group under the CSTO Committee of Secretaries of Security Councils on information security was held in Moscow, with the participation of delegations of representatives of national coordinating and competent authorities on information security, as well as experts and specialists from relevant national structures and agencies of the Organization’s member states.
On 16 April 2026, the 21st meeting of the Council of the CSTO Consultative Coordination Center for Computer Incident Response (CCC CSTO) was held in Moscow, with the participation of delegations of representatives of national competent authorities for computer incident response of the Organization’s member states, as well as a delegation of the CSTO Secretariat headed by Umarzoda Umar Safar, Head of the Countering Challenges and Threats Department of the CSTO Secretariat.
On 17 April, the annual training courses for representatives of the CSTO member states who do not have the status of military personnel were completed at the CSTO Secretariat.
The CSTO Secretary General Stanislav Zas spoke in Dushanbe at a high-level conference on international and regional cooperation on border security and counterterrorism
18.10.2022
A high-level Conference on "International and Regional Cooperation on Border Security and Management to Counter Terrorism and Prevent Terrorist Movement", organized jointly by the UN Office for Counter-Terrorism, the Government of the Republic of Tajikistan, the Regional Center for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia, the OSCE and the EU, began its work in Dushanbe, on October 18 this year.
The Collective Security Treaty Organization Secretary General Stanislav Zas, addressed the Conference. He noted that the CSTO actively supported international initiatives to strengthen border security to combat terrorism by stemming the flow of foreign terrorist fighters across borders.
"We are pleased with the development of our cooperation in this area with the UN Counter-Terrorism Office, the UN Counter-Terrorism Center, and the UN Preventive Diplomacy Center for Central Asia under the Border Security and Management Program and the "Towards a Joint Action Plan" project, carried out in accordance with the UN Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy in Central Asia," Stanislav Zas said in his statement.
According to him, by expanding interaction and information exchange, the CSTO sees the potential to develop cooperation between the Organization and the SCO Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure, the Anti-Terrorist Center of the CIS member states and the Council of Border Guard Commanders in order to collectively counter terrorist threats in Central Asia.
"I would like to take this opportunity to note that in order to counter terrorist threats, the CSTO has formed and continues to improve a system of collective security, including military and special operational and preventive measures and mechanisms. In the course of joint trainings and operations, the readiness of the Collective Rapid Reaction Forces, as well as special structures of the CSTO member states to act as intended, is tested," the CSTO Secretary General said.
He stressed that consolidation of efforts to ensure collective security was a paramount task for the CSTO. "At the same time, noting the dramatically changed situation in Afghanistan, which has led to potential border problems, we clearly understand that the security of the region as a whole depends on preventing terrorists from crossing borders," Stanislav Zas, speaking at the conference, said.
The CSTO Secretary General expressed confidence that the outcome of the Conference "will be a positive contribution to our common cause”.
"We welcome at the end of the Conference the adoption of the “Dushanbe Declaration on Cooperation on Border Security and Management to Counter Terrorism and Prevent Terrorist Movement," Stanislav Zas concluded in his speech.
The event is being held in Dushanbe on October 18-19, 2022.
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