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.”
The CSTO Acting Secretary General Valery Semerikov will take part at the plenary session of the Forum for Security Cooperation of the OSCE
15.07.2019On July 17, this year, the CSTO Acting Secretary General Valery Semerikov will be the keynote speaker at the plenary session of the Forum for Security Cooperation of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe on the theme “The CSTO activities in support of OSCE commitments to ensure military-political aspects of security”.
The upcoming meeting is initiated by the currently chairing the Forum of the Republic of Tajikistan, which motivated its invitation to the keynote speaker that “the CSTO plays a crucial role in maintaining close cooperation and understanding in the military-political field in its region of responsibility”.
The meeting will be held in Vienna at the Hofburg Palace.
The Forum for Security Cooperation (FSC) was established in 1992 by the decision of the Helsinki meeting of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe. It is an independent OSCE body with the authority to discuss military-political issues, including disarmament, arms control, confidence-building measures and take politically binding decisions on them. The Forum meets in Vienna weekly at the level of state representatives.
