A working meeting between CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov and Director of the Institute of China and Contemporary Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences Kirill Babaev was held at the Secretariat of the Collective Security Treaty Organization.
From June 2 to 4, the Republic of Belarus hosted the second staff talks on the organization and conduct of the CSTO Peacekeeping Forces command-and-staff exercise “Indestructible Brotherhood 2026” and the special exercise “Barrier 2026” involving the CSTO Joint CBRN Protection and Medical Support Formation.
On June 3, 2026, a regular meeting of the CSTO Council of Defense Ministers (CDM) was held at the Patriot Central Park of the Russian Ministry of Defense under the chairmanship of the Russian side. The meeting was attended by CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov and Chief of the CSTO Joint Staff Andrey Serdyukov.
From June 1 to 3, Saratov (Russian Federation) is hosting a series of events involving the member states of the Collective Security Treaty Organization aimed at strengthening the collective response system to biological threats.
On June 1, 2026, consultations at the deputy foreign minister level of the CSTO member states were held in Moscow.
The CSTO and the Russian Foreign Ministry signed an amendment to the Agreement on the conditions of stay of the Secretariat of the Organization of the Treaty on Collective Security on the territory of the Russian Federation
09.04.2019
April 9th of this year . in Moscow, the Acting Secretary General of the CSTO Valery Semerikov and Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia Alexander Pankin signed the Second Protocol amending the Agreement between the Government of the Russian Federation and the Collective Security Treaty Organization on the conditions for the stay of the CSTO Secretariat in the Russian Federation of December 19, 2003.
The amendments provide for clarification of the terms of stay of the CSTO Secretariat, and the provision to the CSTO Deputy Secretaries-General, who are not citizens of the Russian Federation and who do not live there permanently, as well as their family members, have diplomatic status and the corresponding privileges and immunities.
The signing ceremony was also attended by the Deputy Secretary General of the CSTO and P.Tihonovsky A.Sultanov and authorized representatives CSTO member states.
