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.”
At the meeting of the CSTO Permanent Council, a draft agenda of the upcoming May meeting of the Council of Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Organization was made up
12.04.2019
April 11th of this year,a meeting of the Permanent Council of the Collective Security Treaty Organization was held under the chairmanship of Aman Mambetseitov, the Permanent and Plenipotentiary Representative of the Kyrgyz Republic, in which Valery Semerikov, the acting Secretary General of the CSTO, took part.
The draft agenda of the meeting of the Council of Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, scheduled for May 22, 2019 in Bishkek was reviewed and formed. It was decided to send the document for approval by the Chairman of the CSTO CFM to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kyrgyz Republic.
The Permanent Council considered the draft Decision of the CSTO Collective Security Council providing for amendments to the Regulations on the Organization’s Council of Ministers of Defense, as well as draft decisions of the Council of Ministers of Defense and the Committee of Secretaries of the CSTO Security Councils concerning the joint preparation of the governing bodies and forces and means of the collective security system of the Collective Security Treaty in 2019-2020 years. It was decided to send these documents to the statutory bodies of the CSTO.
The question of the participation of the consolidated unit of the armed forces of the member states of the Collective Security Treaty Organization in the military parade dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War was also considered. The draft decision of the CSTO Council of Ministers of Defense is in internal coordination.
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