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 concerned ministries and agencies have discussed the Plan of joint training of command bodies and formations of forces and means of the CSTO collective security system for 2024 and activities until 2030
16.12.2022
On December 13-14, on the basis of the Collective Security Treaty Organization Joint Staff, consultations of representatives of concerned ministries and agencies of the member states of the Organization to consider documents of joint training of command bodies and formations of the forces and means of collective security system were held via videoconferencing.
Representatives of concerned ministries and agencies of the Republic of Armenia, the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Russian Federation, the Republic of Tajikistan, as well as the CSTO Secretariat and the CSTO Joint Staff took part in the consultations.
The meeting has discussed measures aimed at increasing the readiness of the forces and means of the CSTO collective security system to carry out earmarked tasks. Joint trainings are conducted against the background of the general military-political and strategic situation being developed by the CSTO Joint Staff in cooperation with the CSTO Secretariat and interested ministries and agencies of the CSTO member states in order to coordination the command bodies and formations of the forces and means of the collective security system and test their readiness.
The consultations provided an opportunity to discuss, finalize and agree on the draft Plan for joint training of command and control bodies and formations of the CSTO collective security system for 2024 and the List of measures for joint training of command and control bodies and formations of the CSTO collective security system for the period until 2030.
The agreed draft documents will be sent to the member states of the Organization for domestic approval.
