CSTO Deputy Secretary General Valery Semerikov held a meeting at the Organization’s Secretariat with a delegation of the Monitoring Team of the UN Security Council Sanctions Committees 1267/1989/2253 concerning ISIL and Al-Qaeda and 1988 concerning the Taliban Movement United Nations Security Council.
A working meeting was held between the CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov and Head of the Center for Scientific and Analytical Information of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Political Sciences Nikolay Plotnikov.
On May 7, the CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov held a working meeting in Moscow at the CSTO Joint Staff aimed at improving issues related to crisis response and expert cooperation.
On May 6, 2026, a meeting was held at the CSTO Secretariat between the CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykovand newly appointed Permanent and Plenipotentiary Representative of the Republic of Belarus to the CSTO Vladimir Bespaly.
The CSTO mission advance team continues to work in the Republic of Armenia
16.09.2022
On 16 September this year, Colonel General Anatoly Sidorov, Head of the CSTO Joint Staff, met Lieutenant General Roman Golubitsky, Head of the Border Guard Department of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation in the Republic of Armenia, as part of the visit of the CSTO mission advance team to the Republic of Armenia. The situation on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border and measures to solve it were discussed in detail, "We received a vision of the situation and operational information about what is happening from our border guards, who are on duty on the border and are involved in the protection of certain sections of the Armenian state border," Anatoly Sidorov said after the working meeting.
On the same day, he met with Sergey Kopyrkin, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Republic of Armenia. The diplomat said that Yerevan "attaches special importance to the CSTO Mission and expects the Collective Security Treaty Organization to play an important role in stabilizing the situation and taking steps to prevent further escalation.
On the eve, CSTO Chief of Staff Anatoli Sidorov had a working meeting with the Armenian Defense Minister Suren Papikyan.
The advance group of CSTO mission arrived in the Republic of Armenia on September 15 in accordance with the decision of the CSTO Collective Security Council. The Mission is tasked to work out proposals on de-escalation of tension.
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CSTO Press Secretary Vladimir Zaynetdinov
