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 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.
The CSTO in the focus of global terrorism - Interview with Taalatbek Masadykov, the CSTO Deputy Secretary General, Special Representative of the CSTO Secretary General on Peacekeeping
16.04.2024Taalatbek Masadykov, Special Representative of the CSTO Secretary General on Peacekeeping, told Sputnik Radio Kyrgyzstan in an interview, why the threat of international terrorism to the CSTO countries was growing.
Over the past few years, experts have been talking about the continuing threat of international terrorism, and this issue has been one of the central topics on the platform of the Collective Security Treaty Organization. However, there have been no vivid manifestations of this evil on the territory of the Collective Security Treaty Organization. Everything changed in March of this year after the tragic events in “Crocus City Hall”.
In an interview for Radio Sputnik Kyrgyzstan ТTaalatbek Masadykov noted that terrorism threats to the CSTO countries had increased significantly.
"The focus of international terrorism is slowly shifting to the CSTO countries. This is understandable: the world is changing, there is global confrontation, there is a desire of certain countries to impose their way of thinking and life on other countries, and this process is very painful. I am also referring to the unprecedented act of terrorism in “Crocus City Hall”, which killed women and children," Masadykov said.
He emphasized that the threats of international terrorism had also increased in Central Asia.
"We have all seen what is happening in the Middle East. So, this could happen at any moment in our region, especially since we are noticing the activation of radicals in our region. I have been talking about this for a long time. A number of our officials and experts, not only in the Kyrgyz Republic, but also in other countries, disagreed with me, saying that this problem was being artificially inflated and that there were no grounds for great concern. But life has shown that there are, and terrorist threats and challenges today are close to our home, the CSTO countries and other neighbors. Therefore, we need to be very, very vigilant," the Special Representative of the CSTO Secretary General concluded.
