A working meeting between CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov and Vasily Khristoforov, Director of the Institute of International Relations and Political Sciences of the Russian State University for the Humanities (RSUH) and Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, was held at the Secretariat of the Collective Security Treaty Organization.
On June 12, 2026, a conference entitled “Central Asia – the Core of the SCO: A Space of Peace and Shared Development” was held in Dushanbe under the auspices of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Tajikistan. Acting CSTO Deputy Secretary General Samat Ordabayev took part in the event.
On June 10, 2026, a regular meeting of the CSTO Council of Foreign Ministers was held in Kazan (Russian Federation) under the chairmanship of the Russian side, with the participation of CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov. CIS Deputy Secretary General Denis Trefilov and SCO Deputy Secretary General Oleg Kopylov were also invited to attend the meeting.
On June 9, 2026, a delegation of the Secretariat of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, headed by CSTO Deputy Secretary General Valery Semerikov, took part in the 19th Meeting of Heads of Lead Counter-Terrorism Units of the Competent Authorities of the CIS Member States and Heads of National Structures Responsible for Coordinating Counter-Terrorism and Counter-Extremism Activities. The event was organized by the Anti-Terrorism Center of the CIS Member States.
Operational duty shifts of defense agencies and ministries of emergency situations of the CSTO member States practiced joint exercise settings
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On June 25, this year, a joint training of duty shifts with defense and emergency ministries of the CSTO member States was held to practice the actions of duty shifts during an incident on the state border of one of the CSTO member States in the Central Asian region. According to the training plan, the emergency situation was caused by terrorist actions and was accompanied by a large-scale spill of an emergency chemical hazardous substance, which required the prompt involvement of rescue units.
Representatives of the CSTO Crisis Response Center, the Central Command Post (National Defense Management Center) of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Crisis Response Center of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Kyrgyz Republic, the National Defense Management Center of the Russian Federation and the Command Post of the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Tajikistan participated in the videoconference training. For the first time, operational duty shifts of the Ministries of Emergency Situations of the CSTO member States of the Central Asian region participated in this work.
Summarizing the results of the training, the head of the CSTO Crisis Response Center, Major General Arsen Rakhmanov noted that the actions of the duty shifts in identifying emergencies were practiced in real time in accordance with the work algorithms of the duty shifts. Information exchange between the authorities involved in the training was successfully carried out, time indicators of work algorithms of duty shifts in case of crisis situations were clarified.
