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.”
In Dushanbe, the working group discussed the creation of a unified air defense system in the Central Asian region
13.02.2019
On February 12-13, a meeting of the working group was held in Dushanbe, under the leadership of the Deputy Chief of the Joint Staff of the CSTO Lieutenant-General of Aviation Nurlan Ormanbetov, to discuss the creation of a joint air defense system in the Central Asian region.
The meeting was attended by representatives of the defense ministries of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Russian Federation, the Republic of Tajikistan, the CSTO Joint Staff and the basic research organizations of the CSTO in the field of air defense and missile defense research.
Head of the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces) Planning Directorate - Deputy Head of the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces) Planning and Training Center of the CSTO Lieutenant General Anatoly Yakovlev in his speech noted that the measures taken are aimed at finding ways to implement the decisions of the heads of state on organizing air defense CSTO, including the possibility of adapting the Joint Air Defense System of the CIS member states to solve problems in the interests of the CSTO.
Following the results of the joint work, the meeting participants discussed and found it advisable to recommend the CSTO Joint Headquarters together with the defense departments of the Organization's member states to continue work on this issue. The meeting participants also agreed on the need to conduct comprehensive research work involving the basic research organizations of the CSTO in the field of research on air defense and missile defense, the results of which will form the basis for the development of relevant regulatory legal documents.
