On May 7, the CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov held a working meeting in Moscow at the CSTO Joint Staff aimed at improving issues related to crisis response and expert cooperation.
On May 6, 2026, a meeting was held at the CSTO Secretariat between the CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykovand newly appointed Permanent and Plenipotentiary Representative of the Republic of Belarus to the CSTO Vladimir Bespaly.
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.”
The Head of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations was elected Chairman of the CSTO Emergency Committee
05.09.2025
The press service of the ministry reports that the head of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations, Alexander Kurenkov, has been elected chairman of the CSTO Emergency Coordination Council.
"The Head of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations, Alexander Kurenkov, was elected chairman of the CSTO Emergency Coordination Council ... The meeting of the CSTO Emergency Committee was held in Kyrgyzstan... The CSTO chairmanship passes annually from state to state in alphabetical order: this year Kyrgyzstan holds the presidency, next year Russia," the message says.
Kurenkov suggested focusing on three priority areas of joint work: the exchange of experience and advanced technologies, professional development of employees, and the development of practical skills for interaction in emergency response.
