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.”
At a meeting of the CSTO Permanent Council, a draft Action Plan for implementing the decisions of the November session of the CSTO Collective Security Council and the priorities of Russia proposed for the period of the chairmanship was agreed
On February 11, this year, under the chairmanship of the Permanent and Plenipotentiary Representative of the Russian Federation Andrei Shvedov, the regular, eighth in this year meeting of the Permanent Council of the Collective Security Treaty Organization was held.
The draft Action Plan for the implementation of the decisions of the November (2019) session of the CSTO Collective Security Council and the priorities proposed by the Russian Federation for the period of its chairmanship was finalized and agreed upon. The draft document is sent for approval to the Chairman of the CSTO Collective Security Council, President of the Russian Federation V. Putin.
Other issues of the Organization’s activities were considered. In particular, the CSTO Permanent Council began work on a draft Joint Statement “On Confirming Commitment to the Purposes and Principles of the UN Charter”.
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The CSTO Press Secretary Vladimir Zaynetdinov
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