28 April marks the Day of the CSTO Joint Staff. It should be recalled that on 28 April 2003, in Dushanbe, the Collective Security Council, guided by the need to establish a military staff body responsible for implementing the military component of the Collective Security Treaty, adopted the Decision “On the Establishment of the Joint Staff of the Collective Security Treaty Organization.”
On 27 April 2026, within the framework of the International Scientific and Practical Conference “Contours of a New Architecture of Collective Security: Current Issues of Information and Analytical Partnership within the CSTO,” held at MGIMO University of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, a round table entitled “Eurasian Analytical Platform: New Approaches in a New Geopolitical Reality” took place. During the event, Head of the Information and Public Relations Department of the CSTO Secretariat Yuriy Shuvalov delivered a presentation on “The Eurasian Analytical Network: A New Cognitive Architecture of Collective Security.”
A task force headed by the Chief of CSTO Joint Staff visited the Tajik-Afghan border section
09.07.2021
On July 8, a task force headed by Colonel General Anatoly Sidorov, Chief of the CSTO Joint Staff, flew over the Tajik-Afghan border.
The task force visited border guard detachment 9 ("Kalay-Khumb"). The group of officers was familiarized on the ground with the order of protection of the Tajik-Afghan border by the military personnel of the Border Troops of the Republic of Tajikistan, staffing of the units with personnel, weapons and special equipment. The order of interaction with units of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Tajikistan allocated to strengthen protection of the state border was studied.
The task force inspected the area of the Tajik border, where the largest number of soldiers of the government troops of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan with weapons (over 200 servicemen) was observed crossing the border from Afghanistan.
Colonel General Anatoly Sidorov, Chief of the CSTO Joint Staff, appreciated the readiness of the Border Troops of the State National Security Committee of the Republic of Tajikistan to provide security on the Tajik-Afghan border.
The visit to the Tajik-Afghan border section allowed the task force to objectively assess the state of affairs on the ground and contributed to the development of objective proposals to reduce tensions on the Tajik-Afghan border and prepare proposals for joint measures in the CSTO format.
