On 20 April 2026, a meeting of the Council of the CSTO Parliamentary Assembly was held in Moscow under the chairmanship of the Russian side. During the meeting, CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov delivered a report entitled “On the progress in implementing the decisions of the November (2025) session of the CSTO Collective Security Council and measures taken to counter challenges and threats to collective security.”
On 17 April 2026, a working meeting was held at the CSTO Secretariat between Acting CSTO Deputy Secretary General Samat Ordabaev and the UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Central Asia, Head of the United Nations Regional Centre for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia (UNRCCA), Kaha Imnadze.
On 17 April 2026, the 17th meeting of the Working Group under the CSTO Committee of Secretaries of Security Councils on information security was held in Moscow, with the participation of delegations of representatives of national coordinating and competent authorities on information security, as well as experts and specialists from relevant national structures and agencies of the Organization’s member states.
On 16 April 2026, the 21st meeting of the Council of the CSTO Consultative Coordination Center for Computer Incident Response (CCC CSTO) was held in Moscow, with the participation of delegations of representatives of national competent authorities for computer incident response of the Organization’s member states, as well as a delegation of the CSTO Secretariat headed by Umarzoda Umar Safar, Head of the Countering Challenges and Threats Department of the CSTO Secretariat.
On 17 April, the annual training courses for representatives of the CSTO member states who do not have the status of military personnel were completed at the CSTO Secretariat.
Issues related to the joint formation of NBC protection and medical support for the CSTO during the special training “Barrier-2026” were discussed
10.03.2026
A working meeting chaired by Lieutenant General Anatoly Yakovlev, Head of the CSTO Troop Deployment Planning Department (Collective Forces), was held with the participation of representatives of the defense ministries of the Republic of Belarus (via videoconferencing), the Russian Federation, and the CSTO Joint Staff.
During the event, issues related to the preparation and conduct of the special training “Barrier-2026”, which is scheduled for October in the Republic of Belarus, the implementation of priorities for expanding cooperation in the field of military medicine and protection against biological threats, announced by the President of the Russian Federation for the period of the Organization's chairmanship in 2026, as well as the organization of research work during the special training with a unique formation.
The joint formation of NBC protection and medical support for the CSTO was created in 2022, taking into account the experience of the Russian Ministry of Defense in involving military medics and chemists in measures to combat the pandemic caused by the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus infection, both in the Russian Federation and in providing assistance to other states.
If necessary, the formation may be deployed on the territory of one of the member states of the Organization in order to ensure the protection of the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces) and to create safe medical and biological conditions for their deployment and use, as well as to participate in ensuring a collective response in the event of a large-scale and rapid spread of dangerous infectious diseases. The joint formation includes specialists from all CSTO member states, with the Russian Federation playing a leading role in its equipment and organization.
