On June 10, 2026, a regular meeting of the CSTO Council of Foreign Ministers was held in Kazan (Russian Federation) under the chairmanship of the Russian side, with the participation of CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov. CIS Deputy Secretary General Denis Trefilov and SCO Deputy Secretary General Oleg Kopylov were also invited to attend the meeting.
On June 9, 2026, a delegation of the Secretariat of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, headed by CSTO Deputy Secretary General Valery Semerikov, took part in the 19th Meeting of Heads of Lead Counter-Terrorism Units of the Competent Authorities of the CIS Member States and Heads of National Structures Responsible for Coordinating Counter-Terrorism and Counter-Extremism Activities. The event was organized by the Anti-Terrorism Center of the CIS Member States.
A working meeting between CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov and Director of the Institute of China and Contemporary Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences Kirill Babaev was held at the Secretariat of the Collective Security Treaty Organization.
From June 2 to 4, the Republic of Belarus hosted the second staff talks on the organization and conduct of the CSTO Peacekeeping Forces command-and-staff exercise “Indestructible Brotherhood 2026” and the special exercise “Barrier 2026” involving the CSTO Joint CBRN Protection and Medical Support Formation.
The CSTO Coordinating Council on Combating Illegal Migration has discussed the results of operation “Illegal-2022”
06.12.2022
On December 6 this year, in Yerevan, a meeting of the Coordinating Council of the Heads of the Competent Authorities of the CSTO Member States on Combating Illegal Migration (CCCIM) was held.
Delegations from the CSTO member states and the CSTO Secretariat participated in the meeting. The members of the CCCIM have discussed the state of the migration situation and changes in the migration legislation in the CSTO member states, praised the effectiveness of measures to counter illegal migration, in particular the CSTO operation "Illegal-2022", and summarized the results of the operation.
Also, the Russian side provided information on the humanitarian work carried out by Russia with regard to citizens arriving from the territory of Ukraine.
The CCCIM members heard a report from the Kazakh side on digitalization in the migration service of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
As a result of the CCCIM meeting it was decided to hold the next meeting in the second half of 2023 in the Republic of Belarus, the presidency of the CSTO in 2023.
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The CSTO Press Secretary Vladimir Zaynetdinov
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