On May 26 of this year, a round table entitled “35 Years of the Commonwealth of Independent States: Results, Tasks, and Prospects” was held at the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation. The event was attended by heads of integration structures in the post-Soviet space, representatives of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as well as representatives of the embassies of CIS countries in Russia. Opening remarks were delivered by the moderator, Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on International Affairs Grigory Karasin.
On May 26, 2026, a regular meeting of the CSTO Committee of Secretaries of Security Councils (CSSC) was held in Moscow under the chairmanship of the Russian side, with the participation of CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov. The participants conducted a substantive exchange of views on issues related to strengthening security in the CSTO area of responsibility.
On May 25, 2026, a meeting was held at the CSTO Secretariat between CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov, CSTO Deputy Secretary General Valery Semerikov, and Acting Director of the African Union Counter-Terrorism Centre Idriss Mounir Lallali.
On May 25, 2026, a meeting took place at the Secretariat of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) between CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov and the Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the Russian Federation, Kazem Jalali.
On May 20, consultations of representatives (experts) of the defense agencies of the CSTO member states aimed at improving air defense and developing the CSTO Collective Aviation Forces were held via videoconference at the CSTO Joint Staff headquarters.
Consultations aimed at further developing the crisis response system were held at the CSTO Joint Headquarters
31.01.2019January 29-30, this year Consultations were held at the Joint Headquarters of the Collective Security Treaty Organization to harmonize draft documents aimed at further developing the CSTO crisis response system.
The event was held under the general direction of the Deputy Chief of the Joint Staff of the CSTO, Major General Sergei Kuprik. Representatives of interested ministries and departments of the Republic of Armenia, the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Russian Federation, the Republic of Tajikistan, the Secretariat and the CSTO Joint Staff took part in it.
During the consultations, a draft Regulation on the information interaction of the CSTO Crisis Response Center was agreed.
Summing up the event, Sergei Kuprik noted that this document is very important for improving work on collecting and analyzing information on the state of the military-political situation in the CSTO area of responsibility, as well as for predicting its development in order to timely identify the prerequisites of crisis situations.
"In modern conditions, only the availability of relevant and complete information on the existing challenges and threats, the state of the national contingents of the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces) will ensure quality preparation of proposals to the statutory bodies of the Organization to protect the territorial integrity and sovereignty of the CSTO member states by collective efforts" Deputy Chief of the CSTO Joint Staff.
The CSTO Crisis Response Center is intended for organizational, informational, analytical and informational and technological support to the activities of the Collective Security Council, the Council of Ministers of Foreign Affairs, the Council of Ministers of Defense, the Committee of Secretaries of Security Councils and CSTO bodies in order to make timely decisions aimed at ensuring security, stability, territorial integrity and sovereignty of the CSTO member states. The center has organized round-the-clock duty by the military personnel of the CSTO Joint Staff. The duty shift collects, analyzes and exchanges information on the state and trends of the situation in the area of responsibility of the Organization.
The effective functioning of the CSTO Crisis Response Center increases the speed of making and implementing decisions on the use of forces and means of the collective security system in the area of responsibility of the Organization.
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