On May 25, 2026, a meeting took place at the Secretariat of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) between CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov and the Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the Russian Federation, Kazem Jalali.
On May 20, consultations of representatives (experts) of the defense agencies of the CSTO member states aimed at improving air defense and developing the CSTO Collective Aviation Forces were held via videoconference at the CSTO Joint Staff headquarters.
On May 20–21, 2026, a Coordination Meeting of Chief Narcologists of the CSTO member states was held in St. Petersburg within the framework of the Russian Federation’s chairmanship in the Collective Security Treaty Organization.
On May 19, 2026, Acting CSTO Deputy Secretary General Samat Ordabayev met in Vienna with Director of the Division for Operations of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime Bo Mathiasen.
On May 19, 2026, an international round table on the topic “CSTO: together for strengthening international peace and stability” was held at the Hofburg Palace in Vienna, Austria, on the sidelines of the OSCE Forum for Security Co-operation in Europe.
Russian representative Andrei Shvedov was elected Chairman of the CSTO Permanent Council
03.12.2019
On December 3, 2019, a meeting of the Permanent Council of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, chaired by the Permanent and Plenipotentiary Representative of the Kyrgyz Republic Aman Mambetseyitov, was held. The CSTO Acting Secretary General Valery Semerikov took part in the meeting.
They discussed the preparations for the working meeting of the Foreign Ministers of the CSTO member states, which will be held on December 5, 2019 on the sidelines of the OSCE Ministerial Council in Bratislava.
In connection with the transfer of the chairmanship of the CSTO in 2019-2020 to the Russian Federation, the Permanent and Plenipotentiary Representative of Russia to the CSTO, Ambassador-at-Large of the Russian Foreign Ministry Andrei Vladimirovich Shvedov was elected Chairman of the Permanent Council. The plenipotentiary representative of Kyrgyzstan handed him a wooden hammer, symbolizing the adoption of decisions by the CSTO Permanent Council. Aman Mambetseyitov was thanked for the fruitful and constructive work as Chairman of the Permanent Council of the Organization in 2018-2019.
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The CSTO Press Secretary Vladimir Zaynetdinov
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