On December 4, at the invitation of the Iranian side, a delegation from the Joint Staff of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, led by Chief of the Joint Staff Colonel General Andrei Serdyukov, took part in the final stage of joint anti-terrorism trainings conducted by the competent authorities of the member states of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization “Sahand-Anti-Terror 2025” in the Islamic Republic of Iran.
The CSTO Deputy Secretary General Valery Semerikov took part in the “BRICS+ 2025 Anti-Terrorism Conference: National and Regional Counter-Terrorism Strategies in the Context of Emerging Challenges and Security Threats”, held in Moscow.
A delegation from the CSTO Secretariat, led by the Deputy Secretary General Taalatbek Masadikov, took part from 1 to 5 December in the VIII Coordination Meeting of High-Level Representatives of the Secretariat of the Collective Security Treaty Organization and the International Committee of the Red Cross (hereinafter referred to as the Coordination Meeting) at the ICRC headquarters in Geneva.
The Head of the Department for Countering Challenges and Threats of the CSTO Secretariat took part in the Annual Conference on the Review of Security Issues
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Safar Umarzoda, Head of the Department for Countering Challenges and Threats of the CSTO Secretariat, took part in a special event (side-event) on "Countering Radicalization leading to terrorism and Extremism" organized by the Russian Federation on the margins of the OSCE Annual Conference on Security Review, where he reported on the measures taken by the CSTO on countering terrorism and extremism, and willingness to share the experience gained.
In his speech, Safar Umarzoda emphasized the global nature of the terrorist threat, which has intensified against the background of geopolitical turbulence. He emphasized the role of regional organizations, noting: "Strengthening regional stability... Regional organizations are able to form an alternative to inefficient or outdated models of relationships and create new, more effective security mechanisms." Practical measures of the CSTO were presented, including regular operations ("Channel", "PROXY", "Illegal", "Mercenary") aimed at suppressing channels of financing, recruitment and neutralizing the resource base of terrorism. The CSTO's readiness to share its accumulated experience, especially in the context of the Afghan crisis, was emphasized, and international and regional structures were called upon to actively cooperate.
