On 20 December, a joint training session was held between the duty shifts of the CSTO Crisis Response Center and the command posts of the defense and emergency ministries of the Organization's member states.
On 10 and 11 December, the Joint Staff of the Collective Security Treaty Organization hosted videoconference consultations of representatives of interested ministries and departments of the CSTO member states on the organization of joint training activities in 2026 for the CSTO collective security system's command and control bodies and formations.
On December 11, 2024, Taalatbek Masadykov, the CSTO Deputy Secretary General and Special Representative of the CSTO Secretary General for Peacekeeping, held a meeting with the delegation of the Monitoring Group (MG) of the UN Security Council Sanctions Committees 1267/1989/2253 on ISIS and “Al-Qaeda” and 1988 on the Taliban Movement.
On December 11, 2024, the 40th meeting of the Working Group on Afghanistan under the CSTO Ministerial Council was held with the participation of the CSTO Deputy Secretary General S. Ordabayev and the CSTO Deputy Secretary General T. Masadykov. The event was also attended by delegations of the Organization's member states and representatives of the UNOCT, the UNRCCA, the CIS ATC, the Coordination Service of the CIS Council of Commanders of Border Troops, the SCO RATS, and the ICRC.
The Defense Ministries have discussed the situation in the Republic of Kazakhstan and the actions of the CSTO Collective Peacekeeping Forces
09.01.2022
On January 9, 2022, under the general supervision of the Chief of the CSTO Joint Staff, Colonel-General Anatoly Sidorov, a working meeting was held via videoconferencing with the participation of representatives of the general staffs of the armed forces of the CSTO member States.
In the course of the meeting, it was noted that all the CSTO member States promptly sent military contingents to the Republic of Kazakhstan at the request of the Head of State to assist in resolving the crisis situation. As part of the CSTO Collective Peacekeeping Forces, there are units of the armed forces of the Republic of Armenia, the Republic of Belarus, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Russian Federation and the Republic of Tajikistan.
In the shortest possible time, the CSTO Peacekeeping Forces were transferred from the states to the Republic of Kazakhstan. Special words of gratitude were expressed to the Russian Aerospace Forces. Subdivisions of the CSTO Collective Peacekeeping Forces have begun to perform tasks, the main of which are the protection of important state and military facilities of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
The CSTO Joint Staff, together with the CSTO Secretariat, developed documents approved by the Collective Security Council, the CSTO Council of Defense Ministers on measures aimed at normalizing the situation in the Republic of Kazakhstan, on the formation of the CSTO Collective Peacekeeping Forces and on conducting a peacekeeping operation on the territory of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
Since the beginning of the aggravation of the situation in the Republic of Kazakhstan, the CSTO Joint Staff has been transferred to an enhanced mode of operation. To coordinate interaction with the defense departments of the CSTO member States, the formation and deployment of the CSTO Collective Peacekeeping Forces, control over the implementation of decisions of the CSTO bodies, as well as interaction on operational, administrative and logistics issues, an operational group headed by the Deputy Chief of the CSTO Joint Staff was sent to the Republic of Kazakhstan.
A day-and-night work of the CSTO Crisis Response Center has been deployed, providing videoconferencing with the defense departments of the CSTO member States.
In order to carry out peacekeeping tasks, the CSTO Joint Staff coordinates interaction between the CSTO CRC, the CSTO Collective Peacekeeping Forces, and the defense ministries of the CSTO member States. Interaction with defense departments on the organization of material and technical support, the deployment of military contingents of the CSTO member States and the replenishment of the necessary funds is under special control.
