On December 5, 2024, at the CSTO Secretariat, the CSTO Secretary General Imangali Tasmagambetov met with the Director of the Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences Fyodor Voitolovsky, Deputy of the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus Alexander Shpakovsky and Editor-in-Chief of the magazine “National Defense” Igor Korotchenko.
On 3 December 2024, the 27th meeting of the Coordination Council of the Heads of the Competent Authorities for Countering the Illegal Migration of the Member States of the Collective Security Treaty Organization was held by videoconferencing.
On 2 December 2024, the 26th meeting of the Coordination Council of the Heads of Competent Authorities for Countering the Illicit Drug Trafficking of the Member States of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (hereinafter referred to as the CSTO CCBCD) was held via videoconferencing.
The CSTO Secretary General meets with Belarusian Defense Minister
30.10.2024
The CSTO Secretary General Imangali Tasmagambetov met with Viktor Khrenin, Minister of Defense of the Republic of Belarus, in Minsk.
The parties discussed the main areas of cooperation on the organization's platform this year, as well as possible areas of further interaction.
The head of the Belarusian defense ministry briefed the CSTO Secretary General on the current military and political situation in the Eastern European region of collective security, as well as informed about the position of the Belarusian side on the agenda of the upcoming joint meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers, the Council of Defense Ministers, the Committee of Secretaries of Security Councils of the CSTO member states to be held on November 28, 2024 in Astana.
Speaking about the CSTO activities in the near future, the Minister of Defense noted that the main attention of the Belarusian side will be focused on the preparation and holding of joint trainings in the format of the organization “Interaction-2025”, “Search-2025”, “Echelon-2025” on the territory of Belarus in September 2025, implementation of the provisions of the strategy of collective security for the period up to 2025.
