28 April marks the Day of the CSTO Joint Staff. It should be recalled that on 28 April 2003, in Dushanbe, the Collective Security Council, guided by the need to establish a military staff body responsible for implementing the military component of the Collective Security Treaty, adopted the Decision “On the Establishment of the Joint Staff of the Collective Security Treaty Organization.”
On 27 April 2026, within the framework of the International Scientific and Practical Conference “Contours of a New Architecture of Collective Security: Current Issues of Information and Analytical Partnership within the CSTO,” held at MGIMO University of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, a round table entitled “Eurasian Analytical Platform: New Approaches in a New Geopolitical Reality” took place. During the event, Head of the Information and Public Relations Department of the CSTO Secretariat Yuriy Shuvalov delivered a presentation on “The Eurasian Analytical Network: A New Cognitive Architecture of Collective Security.”
Coordination Council on Combating Illegal Migration will review the results of the "Illegal" ("Nelegal") operation
18.06.2019
On June 20, 2019, the regular meeting of the Coordination Council of the Heads of the Competent Authorities of the CSTO Member States on Combating Illegal Migration will be held in Cholpon-Ata of the Kyrgyz Republic.
Delegations of the CSTO member states, as well as Deputy Secretary General of the CSTO Alymbay Sultanov will take part in the meeting of the Coordination Council.
The participants of the meeting will discuss the state of the migration situation in the CSTO member states and the effectiveness of the measures taken to combat illegal migration, conceptually determine the further work on the draft Agreement on cooperation of the member states of the Collective Security Treaty Organization in the field of combating illegal migration, as well as consider the results of the regional operation of the CSTO "Illegal" ("Nelegal") and appoint the Secretary of the Coordination Council.
In addition, at the meeting it is planned to exchange experience in the Organization member states on monitoring the entry, stay and departure of foreign nationals arriving in a visa-free manner on countering the use of fictitious marriages by migrants in order to legalize them on the territory of the CSTO member states.
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