On July 4, 2025, a delegation of the CSTO Secretariat visited the Central Military-Patriotic Park of Culture and Recreation of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation "Patriot".
The Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov received the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the CSTO member states and the Secretary General of the Organization in Cholpon-Ata on June 30. The meeting was attended by the Foreign Ministers of Kyrgyzstan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Russia and Tajikistan.
On June 30, 2025, a regular meeting of the CSTO Council of Foreign Ministers was held in Cholpon-Ata (the Kyrgyz Republic) under the chairmanship of the Kyrgyz side, which was attended by the Organization's Secretary General Imangali Tasmagambetov.
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.
On the XIX meeting of the Council of the Advisory Coordination Center of the Collective Security Treaty Organization on Computer Incident Response
26.06.2025
On June 19, 2025, in Bosteri, Issyk-Kul region of the Kyrgyz Republic, the XIX meeting of the Council of the Advisory Coordination Center of the Collective Security Treaty Organization on Computer Incident Response (CSTO CCC) was held, which was attended by delegations of representatives of national authorized bodies for responding to computer incidents of the CSTO member states.
Sergey Viktorovich Korelov, Chairman of the Council of the CSTO CCC, opened the meeting and addressed the participants.
During the meeting, members of the Council of the CSTO CCC, members of the delegations of the CSTO member states and the CSTO Secretariat discussed current threats to information security and methods of countering them.
The speakers noted a massive increase in the number of attacks using botnets in their Internet segments; the number of encrypted systems compromised through open RDP services using social engineering techniques; phishing attacks and attacks using supply chains with intensive involvement of various interacting organizations and structures during their implementation. The meeting participants expressed particular concern about the threats associated with the leakage of significant amounts of data from individuals and legal entities.
During the event, delegates exchanged views on current threats and the problem of promptly communicating information about critical software vulnerabilities to owners of vulnerable resources and responding to them. They noted the active development of information exchange activities between the specialists of the CSTO CCC contact points, and an increase in the number of joint events.
They expressed gratitude to the representatives of the Kyrgyz Republic for organizing the meeting and welcoming them.
