On July 4, 2025, a delegation of the CSTO Secretariat visited the Central Military-Patriotic Park of Culture and Recreation of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation "Patriot".
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.
Commentary of the CSTO Secretariat on a number of media reports on the legal grounds for peacekeeping operations by the Collective Security Treaty Organization's Collective Peacekeeping Forces
02.02.2023
The CSTO peacekeeping operations are regulated by the Agreement on the CSTO Peacekeeping Activities of 6 October 2007.
In accordance with Article 3 of the aforementioned Agreement, a decision on a peacekeeping operation in the territory of one of the CSTO member states is taken by the CSTO Collective Security Council on the basis of a corresponding official request of that state, with immediate notification of the UN SC. A decision on a CSTO peacekeeping operation in the territory of a non-CSTO member state is taken on the basis of a UN SC decision.
The Protocol of September 16, 2021, on amendments to the above-mentioned Agreement, providing for the procedure of determining a coordinating state for interaction with the UN on behalf of the CSTO in peacekeeping, is under ratification (ratified by the Republic of Belarus, Russia and the Republic of Tajikistan).
If proposals to change the legal basis for the use of the CSTO Collective Peacekeeping Forces are received, they will be agreed upon with the member states.
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