On 20 December, a joint training session was held between the duty shifts of the CSTO Crisis Response Center and the command posts of the defense and emergency ministries of the Organization's member states.
On 10 and 11 December, the Joint Staff of the Collective Security Treaty Organization hosted videoconference consultations of representatives of interested ministries and departments of the CSTO member states on the organization of joint training activities in 2026 for the CSTO collective security system's command and control bodies and formations.
On December 11, 2024, Taalatbek Masadykov, the CSTO Deputy Secretary General and Special Representative of the CSTO Secretary General for Peacekeeping, held a meeting with the delegation of the Monitoring Group (MG) of the UN Security Council Sanctions Committees 1267/1989/2253 on ISIS and “Al-Qaeda” and 1988 on the Taliban Movement.
On December 11, 2024, the 40th meeting of the Working Group on Afghanistan under the CSTO Ministerial Council was held with the participation of the CSTO Deputy Secretary General S. Ordabayev and the CSTO Deputy Secretary General T. Masadykov. The event was also attended by delegations of the Organization's member states and representatives of the UNOCT, the UNRCCA, the CIS ATC, the Coordination Service of the CIS Council of Commanders of Border Troops, the SCO RATS, and the ICRC.
The CSTO Working Group at the CSTO CMD has discussed electronic warfare in Minsk
07.06.2023
On June 7, this year, a regular meeting of the CSTO Working Group on electronic warfare chaired by Lieutenant General Yuri Lastochkin, the Chief of the electronic warfare forces of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, was held in Minsk.
The meeting was attended by the heads of military administrative bodies of the armed forces of the CSTO member states, responsible for the organization of electronic warfare in the national armed forces, and representatives of the CSTO Joint Staff headed by Lieutenant General Anatoly Yakovlev, Head of the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces) Planning Department.
The meeting participants have considered issues of application of electronic warfare forces and facilities in modern armed conflicts, ensuring electromagnetic compatibility of radio-electronic means of the national armed forces.
Taking into account the importance of the issues discussed, Major General Viktor Gulevich, Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces - First Deputy Minister of Defense of the Republic of Belarus - took part in the meeting. In particular, he noted that "radioelectronic warfare in the conditions of modern confrontation is the most effective and quickly realizable means of neutralizing technical advantages of the opposing side in troop management”. He also supported the need for practical work on electronic warfare during joint operational and combat training with components of the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces).