From October 18 to 23 this year, in accordance with the 2026 Plan for the Joint Training of Command and Control Bodies and Formations of Forces and Assets of the Collective Security System of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, the “Cobalt-2026” special exercise was held at the Magob training range of the Special Purpose Units Training Center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Tajikistan.
An international scientific and practical conference entitled “Greater Eurasia: Institutions, Development, Cooperation” was held at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO) of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, jointly organized with the Institute of China and Contemporary Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences (ICCA RAS). CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov took part in the conference.
A working meeting between CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov and Kazem Jalali, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the Russian Federation, was held at the Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran in the Russian Federation.
An international scientific and practical conference entitled “Transformation of the Global Security System and the Shaping of a Eurasian Security Framework” was held at Moscow State Linguistic University (MSLU).
Today, a conference entitled “The Role and Place of Media in CSTO Member States in Efforts to Contain Crisis (Emergency) Situations in Collective Security Regions” was held in Minsk.
Representatives of the national agencies of the CSTO member States have discussed interaction with the CSTO Crisis Response Center
19.03.2022
On March 18, this year, the CSTO Joint Staff held a meeting with representatives of the national agencies of the CSTO member States authorized to cooperate with the CSTO Crisis Response Center.
The Crisis Response Center, located in Moscow, had representatives of the Joint Staff and the Secretariat of the Organization, the Russian Ministry of Defense, the National Defense Management Center of the Russian Federation, the CIS Anti-Terrorist Center, and the Council of the Commanders of the CIS Border Guard Troops.
Heads of the Operational Command Center of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Armenia, Central Command Center of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus, Central Command 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 and Operational Command Center of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Tajikistan participated in the meeting by videoconferencing.
Reports were presented to participants about the military and political situation in the world and the CSTO area of responsibility, modern challenges and terrorist threats in the CIS space, the main directions of improvement of the CSTO crisis response system based on the experience of peacekeeping operations in the Republic of Kazakhstan, as well as on the development of the CSTO communication system in the interests of the crisis responding.
As part of the meeting, representatives of the Scientific and Production Association "Real-Time Software Complexes" presented special software that allows to automate important areas in the work of the CSTO CRC.
The Head of the CSTO Crisis Response Center Major General Arsen Rakhmanov, summing up the event, noted that one of the key priorities during the Republic of Armenia's chairmanship in the Organization was to update crisis response mechanisms, including the organization of constant monitoring of the situation in the Organization's area of responsibility and working out mechanisms of forecasting and prevention of crisis situations.
He also noted that thanks to the active work of the meeting participants it was possible to discuss topical issues of the crisis response system and to outline the main directions of improvement of information interaction in the CSTO format.
