On 13 February, a traditional meeting was held in Moscow between the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergey Lavrov and the chairs of the parliamentary committees (commissions) of the CSTO member states responsible for international relations, defense and security. CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov and ambassadors of the Organization’s member states also took part in the event.
CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov addressed the Fifth meeting of the chairs of the parliamentary committees (commissions) of the CSTO member states responsible for international relations, defense and security.
Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, Chairman of the CSTO Committee of Secretaries of Security Councils (CSSC) Sergey Shoigu gave an extensive interview to the Interfax news agency, in which he commented on the key areas of the Organization’s activities in 2026.
On 12 February, a briefing was held at the CSTO Crisis Response Center by Chief of the CSTO Joint Staff Colonel General Andrey Nikolaevich Serdyukov on the topic “Results of the joint training of command and control bodies and forces of the CSTO collective security system in 2025 and tasks for 2026.”
At a meeting of the CSTO Permanent Council, the Implementation Plan for the Session of the Collective Security Council and the agenda for the upcoming CSSC meeting were considered
On January 30-31, 2020, chaired by the Permanent and Plenipotentiary Representative of the Russian Federation Andrei Shvedov, a meeting of the Permanent Council of the Collective Security Treaty Organization was held, in which the CSTO Secretary General Stanislav Zas took part.
The draft Action Plan for the implementation of the decisions of the November (2019) session of the Collective Security Council of the Collective Security Treaty Organization and the priorities proposed by the Russian Federation for the period of the chairmanship of the Organization was considered and finalized. The CSTO Permanent Council discussed the draft agenda for the upcoming spring meeting of the Committee of Secretaries of Security Councils. Work on these documents will be continued at the next meeting of the Permanent Council.
The draft Plan for the joint training of command and control forces and means of the Collective Security System of the Collective Security Treaty Organization for 2021 was also considered. It was decided to send the draft document for domestic approval in the prescribed manner.
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