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.
A working meeting between CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov and Director of the Institute of China and Contemporary Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences Kirill Babaev was held at the Secretariat of the Collective Security Treaty Organization.
From June 2 to 4, the Republic of Belarus hosted the second staff talks on the organization and conduct of the CSTO Peacekeeping Forces command-and-staff exercise “Indestructible Brotherhood 2026” and the special exercise “Barrier 2026” involving the CSTO Joint CBRN Protection and Medical Support Formation.
Representatives of the defense departments discussed issues of improving the joint training of command and control bodies and forces of the forces and means of a collective security system of the Collective Security Treaty Organization
05.03.2020
On March 3 - 5, consultations were held at the Joint Staff of the Collective Security Treaty Organization on improving the joint training of command and the forces and means of a collective security system of the Collective Security Treaty Organization and a working meeting of representatives of the defense departments of the CSTO member states on organizing events in this area in 2020.
Representatives of the defense departments of the Republic of Armenia, the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Kazakhstan (via videoconferencing), the Kyrgyz Republic, the Russian Federation, the Republic of Tajikistan, the Secretariat and the Joint Staff of the Collective Security Treaty Organization took part in the event under the overall leadership of the First Deputy Head of the CSTO Joint Staff.
During the event, taking into account the proposals of the representatives of the defense departments of the CSTO member states, the sides discussed and agreed on improving joint training, conducting strategic command post training and first staff negotiations on organizing and conducting joint trainings with the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces) in 2020.
To all parties in the development of the intentions of the special exercises Echelon 2020 and Search 2020, the command and staff exercise Interaction 2020, the joint exercise Frontier 2020 and the command and staff exercise Unbreakable Brotherhood 2020, should be taken as the basis Plan of the operational-strategic task developed by the CSTO Joint Staff for conducting joint operational and combat training of the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces) in 2020.
The participants in the working meeting discussed participation in joint exercises conducted with the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces), representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross, the Republic of Serbia, the Republic of Uzbekistan, as well as the border services of the competent authorities of the CSTO member states.
As a result of consultations and a working meeting, agreements were reached, in particular, on the inclusion of representatives of the Republic of Serbia in the composition of the participants in the command-and-staff exercise "Indestructible Brotherhood 2020". The participation of representatives of the Republic of Uzbekistan as observers in the joint training “Frontier 2020” was approved.
