Servicemen of the Combined Arms Army of the Central Military District (CMD) have arrived in the Republic of Belarus to take part in the command-and-staff exercise with the CSTO Peacekeeping Forces “Indestructible Brotherhood-2026” and the special exercise with the CSTO joint NBC protection and medical support formation “Barrier-2026”.
On October 7, 2026, the Fourth Counter-Terrorism Forum opened in Minsk (Republic of Belarus), bringing together the CIS Conference on Countering Terrorism and Extremism, the SCO Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure international scientific and practical conference, and joint counter-terrorism exercises.
October 7 marks the 24th anniversary of the signing of the Charter of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, which formalized the establishment of the CSTO as an international regional organization. The goals set out in the document, including strengthening peace and stability and collectively protecting the independence, territorial integrity and sovereignty of the member states, remain the foundation for developing mutually beneficial, truly allied cooperation. On this basis, the Russian Federation is chairing the CSTO in 2026 under the motto “Collective security in a multipolar world: a common goal, shared responsibility.”
Acting Secretary General of the CSTO Valery Semerikov will take part in the OSCE Anti-Terrorism Conference in Bratislava
22.03.2019
The theme of the annual event being the current Slovak OSCE Chairmanship made the “Review of efforts to prevent and counter terrorism, as well as violent extremism and radicalization, leading to terrorism in the OSCE region”. The meeting will be attended by representatives of diplomatic and security agencies of the OSCE member states and specialized structures of a number of international organizations.
This direction is one of the priorities in the CSTO activities. Its representatives are actively participating in international conferences on counter-terrorism. In 2018, the heads of the CSTO Secretariat delegations made statements at UN conferences (in New York), SCO (in Tashkent), as well as those that took place in the Organization's member states - in Russia, Belarus and Tajikistan.
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