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.
The Сommand of the CSTO CRRF in course of the command and staff training worked out the issues of organizing a joint operation
12.11.2020
On 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.
