The CSTO Secretary General Imangali Tasmagambetov told RIA Novosti, commenting on the terrorist attack in “Crocus City Hall” that terrorism was used in hybrid warfare, provoked inter-ethnic and inter-religious discord, so the CSTO member states needed tools to counter this phenomenon.
In the period from 12 to 13 March 2024, in the Collective Security Treaty Organization, a strategic command and staff training is being conducted under the supervision of Colonel-General Andrei Serdyukov, Chief of the Joint Staff, during which issues related to stabilizing the situation in the Central Asian region of collective security in the context of the growing threat of a crisis situation are being worked out.
Imangali Tasmagambetov - on the relations between the Collective Security Treaty Organization and the Armenian leadership, the CSTO peacekeeping work and the security situation in Eurasia.
On 11 March 2024, the CSTO Secretariat hosted a round table on "Cooperation in the Information and Analytical Sphere to Ensure Collective Security" on the occasion of the Tajik Press Day. The event was attended by the Head of the Department for the Study of Regional Security Problems of the Strategic Research Centre under the President of the Republic of Tajikistan, Sayhamid Sharifzoda, the Permanent Representative of the Republic of Tajikistan to the CSTO, Khasan Sultonov, and representatives of the Tajik media.
The Сommand of the CSTO CRRF in course of the command and staff training worked out the issues of organizing a joint operation
12.11.2020On the basis of one of the formations of the Airborne Forces of the Russian Federation, stationed in the Moscow region, in the period from 11 to 12 November 2020, a command and staff training was held with the Command of the CSTO Collective Rapid Reaction Forces (CRRF).
The main purpose of the event, led by Colonel-General Anatoly Sidorov, Chief of the CSTO Joint Staff, was to test the prospective structure of the CSTO CRRF command post deployed on the basis of the command post of the Airborne Forces.
The command and staff training was attended by representatives of the defense, as well as the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Ministry of Emergencies and other interested departments of the CSTO member states, the Joint Staff and the CSTO Secretariat.
In the course of the training in a training operational environment, officials of the CSTO CRRF Command worked out a decision to conduct a joint operation.
Summing up the results of the command and staff training, Colonel-General Anatoly Sidorov noted that thanks to joint well-coordinated work, prospective approaches to organizing the management of the CSTO CRRF were successfully tested. "The event will undoubtedly have a positive effect on the skills and abilities of the officers of the CSTO CRRF Command in planning joint operations, in using modern technical means of command. All this will contribute to improving the organization of command and control of the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces)," the Chief of the Joint Staff concluded.