Today, in Moscow's Red Square, parade dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 was attended by ceremonial regiments of the armed forces of the CSTO member states.
Officers, non-commissioned officers and soldiers of military contingents from the armed forces of the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic and the Republic of Tajikistan marched through the main square of the Russian Federation in single formation with the Russian by ceremonial regiments. The sequence of their march was determined by alphabetical order.
On April 25, 2025 in the Academy of Management of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia took place a solemn graduation of representatives of the senior staff of law enforcement agencies and services of the CSTO member states: the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Russian Federation, the Republic of Tajikistan, who improved their qualification in the form of specialized training on the topic “Training of personnel and leading specialists for law enforcement agencies and services of the CSTO member states”.
28 April is the Day of Establishment of the Joint Staff of the Collective Security Treaty Organization. We recall that on 28 April 2003. in the city of Dushanbe, the Collective Security Council, guided by the need to establish a military staff body responsible for the implementation of the tasks of the military component of the Collective Security Treaty, adopted a decision on the establishment of the Joint Staff of the Collective Security Treaty Organization.
On 25 April this year, the CSTO Secretariat completed the annual training course for representatives of Collective Security Treaty Organization member states that do not have the status of military personnel.
On 24 April 2025, in Moscow, the Central Museum of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation hosted an international scientific and practical conference organized by the CSTO Secretariat and the CSTO Joint Staff on the theme: “Contribution of the peoples of the CSTO member states to the Victory in the Great Patriotic War”.
The CSTO Secretary General had a meeting with the Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu in Moscow
20.02.2023
On February 20 this year, the CSTO Secretary General Imangali Tasmagambetov met with the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, Army General Sergei Shoigu. They have discussed topical issues concerning the development of the military component of the Organization and the improvement of its force potential.
The meeting was held in the building of the Russian Ministry of Defense on Frunzenskaya Naberezhnaya in Moscow.
Imangali Tasmagambetov has informed Sergei Shoigu about the results of his recent visit to Minsk, where at a meeting with the Chairman of the Collective Security Council, the President of the Republic of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, the Action Plan was approved to implement decisions of the November (2022) session of the CSTO and fulfill the priority areas of the CSTO during the period of the Republic of Belarus presidency, which included a large section on the development of cooperation in the military and military-technical sphere.
"The Belarusian priorities are aimed at improving the readiness of the components of the Collective Security Treaty Organization to fulfill their tasks and strengthen the military and technical cooperation between the CSTO member states; they fully correspond to the current military and political situation and reflect the most urgent and promising directions of development of the military component of the Organization," the CSTO Secretary General stressed.
He informed the Russian Minister of Defense that in 2023 the Plan of joint training of formations of forces and means of the collective security system provided for a number of major trainings of the Collective Forces in the Republic of Belarus. "In September, the "Interaction-2023" training with the Collective Rapid Reaction Forces, a special training with the forces and means of intelligence "Search-2023" and "Echelon-2023" training with logistical support units are planned. The work on improvement of the management system of the Collective Forces is actively going on, in particular, in the field of communication," the CSTO Secretary General noted. He also added that it was proposed to hold a training with the CSTO Peacekeeping Forces "Indestructible Brotherhood-2023" on the territory of the Kyrgyz Republic.
In turn, Sergei Shoigu congratulated Imangali Tasmagambetov on his appointment as the CSTO Secretary General. "I want to congratulate You immediately on your appointment to this important and responsible post, on which much depends in our Organization. I hope that Your vast experience as a statesman and now on an interstate level, considering Your experience, including that as Minister of Defense, where you have done much for the development of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Kazakhstan, will serve to further strengthen the authority of the CSTO both on the international scene and within each of the member states of the Organization," the Russian military minister said.
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