The Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov received the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the CSTO member states and the Secretary General of the Organization in Cholpon-Ata on June 30. The meeting was attended by the Foreign Ministers of Kyrgyzstan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Russia and Tajikistan.
On June 30, 2025, a regular meeting of the CSTO Council of Foreign Ministers was held in Cholpon-Ata (the Kyrgyz Republic) under the chairmanship of the Kyrgyz side, which was attended by the Organization's Secretary General Imangali Tasmagambetov.
Safar Umarzoda, Head of the Department for Countering Challenges and Threats of the CSTO Secretariat, took part in a special event (side-event) on "Countering Radicalization leading to terrorism and Extremism" organized by the Russian Federation on the margins of the OSCE Annual Conference on Security Review, where he reported on the measures taken by the CSTO on countering terrorism and extremism, and willingness to share the experience gained.
On June 19, 2025, in Bosteri, Issyk-Kul region of the Kyrgyz Republic, the XIX meeting of the Council of the Advisory Coordination Center of the Collective Security Treaty Organization on Computer Incident Response (CSTO CCC) was held, which was attended by delegations of representatives of national authorized bodies for responding to computer incidents of the CSTO member states.
On June 24-26, the second staff negotiations were held in the Kyrgyz Republic on the organization and conduct an operational meeting with the Command of the Collective Rapid Deployment Forces of the Central Asian Region (CAR CRDF) and a command and staff training with units of the CAR CRDF "Rubezh-2025", conducted as part of the joint operational and strategic training "Combat Brotherhood-2025".
The CSTO Secretary General Imangali Tasmagambetov's commentary
07.06.2024
In an exclusive commentary to Cronos.Asia, the CSTO Secretary General Imangali Tasmagambetov spoke about the progress of the negotiations.
On Thursday, June 6, 2024, a meeting of the Committee of Secretaries of the CSTO Security Councils was held in Almaty under the chairmanship of Kazakhstan. The meeting participants discussed the military and political situation in the CSTO area of responsibility and measures to improve the activities and cooperation in the Organization's format in countering challenges and threats to CSTO member states. In comments to Cronos.Asia, the CSTO Secretary General Imangali Tasmagambetov said that special attention was paid to the draft “CSTO Targeted Interstate Program on Strengthening the Tajik-Afghan Border”.
- Imangali Nurgaliyevich, during the discussion, what was the most difficult issue in your opinion?
- The negotiations themselves were not difficult. What was difficult was the issue of the CSTO Targeted Interstate Program, which was initiated in 2013 and was not implemented for 10-11 years due to objective reasons. But despite the general geopolitical situation in the zone of responsibility of our Organization, both at the Council of Defense Ministers and with the Secretaries of the Security Council we were able to make a decision for the Collective Security Council to finally sign this program.
- And the fact that Armenia was not present?
- The Armenian side stated even before the meeting that it had no objection to the adoption of decisions in a limited format.
