On May 28, 2026, CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov took part in the International Security Forum held under the auspices of the Security Council of the Russian Federation. More than 150 delegations from 120 countries participated in the event.
On May 26 of this year, a round table entitled “35 Years of the Commonwealth of Independent States: Results, Tasks, and Prospects” was held at the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation. The event was attended by heads of integration structures in the post-Soviet space, representatives of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as well as representatives of the embassies of CIS countries in Russia. Opening remarks were delivered by the moderator, Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on International Affairs Grigory Karasin.
On May 26, 2026, a regular meeting of the CSTO Committee of Secretaries of Security Councils (CSSC) was held in Moscow under the chairmanship of the Russian side, with the participation of CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov. The participants conducted a substantive exchange of views on issues related to strengthening security in the CSTO area of responsibility.
On May 25, 2026, a meeting was held at the CSTO Secretariat between CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov, CSTO Deputy Secretary General Valery Semerikov, and Acting Director of the African Union Counter-Terrorism Centre Idriss Mounir Lallali.
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.
A regular Coordination Meeting of the chief narcologists of the CSTO member states was held
27.08.2025
On August 27-28, 2025, within the framework of the Kyrgyz Republic's chairmanship in the Collective Security Treaty Organization, a regular Coordination Meeting of the chief narcologists of the CSTO member states was held in the Issyk-Kul region.
The meeting was attended by the Minister of Health of the Kyrgyz Republic, heads of drug treatment services of the CSTO member states, specialized departments of ministries of education, internal affairs bodies of the CSTO member states, and employees of specialized international organizations.
The meeting participants have discussed trends in the development of the drug situation in the CSTO area of responsibility, as well as exchanged statistical and other information on the prevalence of drug–related morbidity and mortality, especially among young people.
We got acquainted with the draft Anti–Drug Strategy of the CSTO member states for 2026-2030, the preparation of this document for approval at the next session of the Organization's Collective Security Council, and the draft Statement of the CSTO Collective Security Council "On Strengthening cooperation in countering drug trafficking."
They agreed that preventive activities in the field of combating the threats posed by drug trafficking required further improvement of the level of interdepartmental and international cooperation.
They discussed positive experiences in the field of treatment and rehabilitation of drug addicts, new regulatory legal acts regulating drug treatment, problems of screening factors of substance use, motivational counseling and routing, as well as issues of preventive anti-drug work in the field of education.
The participants of the event got acquainted with the activities of the Republican Center for Psychiatry and Narcology, as well as other medical organizations that provide assistance to patients with drug addiction, highly appreciated the system of drug treatment in the Kyrgyz Republic, noted its comprehensive nature and preventive orientation, as well as the proper level of interaction between psychiatrists, narcologists and other organizations and departments for purposes of population health and prevention of non-medical drug use.
