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 Imangali Tasmagambetov met with the Defense Minister of the Republic of Armenia Suren Papikyan in Yerevan
16.03.2023
On March 16 this year, the Defense Minister of the Republic of Armenia Suren Papikyan had a meeting with the CSTO Secretary General Imangali Tasmagambetov, who arrived in the Republic of Armenia on a working visit.
According to the press service of the Armenian Defense Ministry, the sides exchanged views on a number of international and regional security issues, including the situation on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border and the military-political situation around Armenia.
The CSTO Secretary General also visited the city of Jermuk, which was subjected to shelling during the aggravation of the situation on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border in 2022. Imangali Tasmagambetov met with local authorities and representatives of the Armenian Armed Forces and inspected the territories damaged during the hostilities.
