On May 7, the CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov held a working meeting in Moscow at the CSTO Joint Staff aimed at improving issues related to crisis response and expert cooperation.
On May 6, 2026, a meeting was held at the CSTO Secretariat between the CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykovand newly appointed Permanent and Plenipotentiary Representative of the Republic of Belarus to the CSTO Vladimir Bespaly.
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.”
The CSTO CRRF is prepared for a joint operation as part of the “Interaction-2024”, “Search-2024” and “Echelon-2024” trainings
09.09.2024
В Кыргызстане отработан второй этап командно-штабного учения «Взаимодействие-2024», специальных учений «Поиск-2024» и «Эшелон-2024», в
In the Kyrgyz Republic, the second stage of the “Interaction-2024” command-staff training and the “Search-2024” and “Echelon-2024” special trainings were practiced, during which preparations were made for a joint operation by the CSTO Collective Rapid Reaction Forces (CRRF) to resolve an armed conflict in the Central Asian region.
An important element of the stage was the definition of the concept of the joint operation.
Colonel Samat Seydaliyev, Commander of the CSTO CRRF, a representative of the Armed Forces of the Kyrgyz Republic and commander of the 8th Guards Motorized Rezhitsky Division named after I.V. Panfilov, Order of Lenin, Red Banner, Order of Suvorov, organized the work of the officers of the CSTO CRRF command in preparing the relevant proposals and developing a plan for the joint operation.
The plan approved by the training leadership became the basis for the decision of the Commander of the CSTO CRRF Commander to conduct a joint operation, the main objectives of which are to repel aggression, block and destroy illegal armed formations, their training camps and bases, and restore the situation along the state border line.
At present, the CSTO CRRF Command has worked out the planning of a joint operation, the organization of command, cooperation and comprehensive support. Combat tasks are being assigned and combat work is being organized at the command posts of CSTO CRRF units and subunits. Practical training for the joint operation is being carried out at the firing range.
On the territory of the Kyrgyz Republic, under the charge of Colonel Artur Temirov, First Deputy Chief of General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Kyrgyz Republic, a command-staff training with the CSTO Collective Rapid Reaction Forces “Interaction-2024”, a special training with intelligence forces and means “Search-2024”, and a special training with logistical forces and means “Echelon-2024” are being conducted.
Contingents of the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces) of the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Russian Federation and the Republic of Tajikistan are taking part in the training. Among them are military contingents, formations of special-purpose forces from among the special units of the internal affairs (police), security and special services bodies, authorized bodies in the field of prevention and elimination of the consequences of emergency situations, as well as operational groups of the CSTO Joint Staff and the CSTO Secretariat. A total of about 1,500 servicemen and up to 300 units of weapons, military and special equipment, including aircraft, various types of strike drones, combat boats and air defense equipment, are involved.
