On 20 April 2026, a meeting of the Council of the CSTO Parliamentary Assembly was held in Moscow under the chairmanship of the Russian side. During the meeting, CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov delivered a report entitled “On the progress in implementing the decisions of the November (2025) session of the CSTO Collective Security Council and measures taken to counter challenges and threats to collective security.”
On 17 April 2026, a working meeting was held at the CSTO Secretariat between Acting CSTO Deputy Secretary General Samat Ordabaev and the UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Central Asia, Head of the United Nations Regional Centre for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia (UNRCCA), Kaha Imnadze.
On 17 April 2026, the 17th meeting of the Working Group under the CSTO Committee of Secretaries of Security Councils on information security was held in Moscow, with the participation of delegations of representatives of national coordinating and competent authorities on information security, as well as experts and specialists from relevant national structures and agencies of the Organization’s member states.
On 16 April 2026, the 21st meeting of the Council of the CSTO Consultative Coordination Center for Computer Incident Response (CCC CSTO) was held in Moscow, with the participation of delegations of representatives of national competent authorities for computer incident response of the Organization’s member states, as well as a delegation of the CSTO Secretariat headed by Umarzoda Umar Safar, Head of the Countering Challenges and Threats Department of the CSTO Secretariat.
On 17 April, the annual training courses for representatives of the CSTO member states who do not have the status of military personnel were completed at the CSTO Secretariat.
Serbian Minister of Defense Alexander Vulin and Acting CSTO Secretary General Valery Semerikov discussed the basics of the legal regulation of the participation of Serbian military personnel in joint trainings with the CSTO Collective Forces
On April 25, 2019, a working meeting of the Acting CSTO Secretary General Valery Semerikov with the Minister of Defense of the Republic of Serbia Alexander Vulin took place in the CSTO Secretariat in Moscow.
Head of the Joint Staff of the CSTO Colonel-General Anatoly Sidorov, Director of the Military Intelligence Agency of the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Serbia Brigadier General Zoran Stojkovic, Head of the Department of International Military Cooperation of the Ministry of Defense of Serbia Colonel Milan Rankovic, other officials of the Ministry of Defense of Serbia and the CSTO also participated in the meeting.
Valery Semerikov congratulated the Minister of Defense of the Republic of Serbia Alexander Vulin and all members of the Serbian delegation on the 204th anniversary of the creation of the Armed Forces of Serbia and stressed their growing role in strengthening European security.
During the meeting they discussed issues related to the legal regulation of the basis for the participation of servicemen of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Serbia in joint trainings with the CSTO Collective Forces, as well as the procedure for their involvement in the trainings in 2019.
In addition there was an exchange of views on the training of servicemen of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Serbia in military educational institutions of the CSTO member states.
One of the important results of the meeting was the confirmation of mutual interest in building up cooperation in key areas of regional security.
CSTO press secretary Vladimir Zaynetdinov
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