Delegation of the CSTO Secretariat headed by the Deputy Secretary General of the Organization will take part in the 13th international meeting of high representatives in charge of security issues.
On May 13, 2025, the 41st meeting of the Working Group on Afghanistan under the CSTO Ministerial Council was held with the participation of CSTO Deputy Secretary General Samat Ordabaev. The event was also attended by delegations of the Organization's member states and representatives of the UNOCT, the UNRCCA, the CIS ATC, the CIS Coordination Service of the CIS Council of Commanders of Border Troops and the ICRC.
Today, in Moscow's Red Square, parade dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 was attended by ceremonial regiments of the armed forces of the CSTO member states.
Officers, non-commissioned officers and soldiers of military contingents from the armed forces of the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic and the Republic of Tajikistan marched through the main square of the Russian Federation in single formation with the Russian by ceremonial regiments. The sequence of their march was determined by alphabetical order.
On April 25, 2025 in the Academy of Management of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia took place a solemn graduation of representatives of the senior staff of law enforcement agencies and services of the CSTO member states: the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Russian Federation, the Republic of Tajikistan, who improved their qualification in the form of specialized training on the topic “Training of personnel and leading specialists for law enforcement agencies and services of the CSTO member states”.
28 April is the Day of Establishment of the Joint Staff of the Collective Security Treaty Organization. We recall that on 28 April 2003. in the city of Dushanbe, the Collective Security Council, guided by the need to establish a military staff body responsible for the implementation of the tasks of the military component of the Collective Security Treaty, adopted a decision on the establishment of the Joint Staff of the Collective Security Treaty Organization.
The ХVIII meeting of the CSTO Interstate Commission on Military-Economic Cooperation was held via videoconferencing on November 27, 2020
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The meeting, which was held for the first time via videoconferencing using the capabilities of the CSTO Crisis Response Center, was chaired by the Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, Chairman of the Interstate Commission on Military-Economic Cooperation Yuri Borisov with the participation of all heads of the national parts of the Commission. The CSTO Deputy Secretary General Valery Semerikov took part in the meeting of the Commission.
The meeting participants considered the results of the activities of the Commission on the Implementation of the Decisions of the ХVII Interstate Commission on Military-Economic Cooperation meeting, which took place in Yerevan (Republic of Armenia) in September last year. Following the discussion of the Agenda issues, decisions were made on the further development of multilateral engagement in the field of military-economic cooperation within the CSTO.
In particular, these decisions reflected the issues of organizing and conducting joint research and development work on the development and modernization of military products, the implementation of joint measures in the field of diversification of products of national enterprises and organizations of defense-industrial (military-industrial) complexes of the CSTO member states.
The Commission approved new candidates for the heads and composition of the coordination councils and working groups operating under the Commission, including the Chairman of the Business Council and his First Deputy. Alexander Nozdrachev was unanimously approved as the Chairman of the Business Council for the next three-year term.
The members of the Commission also approved Work Plan for 2021 of the Interstate Commission on Military-Economic Cooperation. It was decided to hold the next meeting of the Commission in the Republic of Belarus in September 2021.
