On 20 April 2026, a meeting of the Council of the CSTO Parliamentary Assembly was held in Moscow under the chairmanship of the Russian side. During the meeting, CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov delivered a report entitled “On the progress in implementing the decisions of the November (2025) session of the CSTO Collective Security Council and measures taken to counter challenges and threats to collective security.”
On 17 April 2026, a working meeting was held at the CSTO Secretariat between Acting CSTO Deputy Secretary General Samat Ordabaev and the UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Central Asia, Head of the United Nations Regional Centre for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia (UNRCCA), Kaha Imnadze.
On 17 April 2026, the 17th meeting of the Working Group under the CSTO Committee of Secretaries of Security Councils on information security was held in Moscow, with the participation of delegations of representatives of national coordinating and competent authorities on information security, as well as experts and specialists from relevant national structures and agencies of the Organization’s member states.
On 16 April 2026, the 21st meeting of the Council of the CSTO Consultative Coordination Center for Computer Incident Response (CCC CSTO) was held in Moscow, with the participation of delegations of representatives of national competent authorities for computer incident response of the Organization’s member states, as well as a delegation of the CSTO Secretariat headed by Umarzoda Umar Safar, Head of the Countering Challenges and Threats Department of the CSTO Secretariat.
On 17 April, the annual training courses for representatives of the CSTO member states who do not have the status of military personnel were completed at the CSTO Secretariat.
Working group under the CSTO Council of Defense Ministers has discussed electronic warfare in the Republic of Kazakhstan
On June 19, in Astana, the capital of the Republic of Kazakhstan, a regular meeting of the Working Group under the CSTO Council of Defense Ministers on electronic warfare was held.
The event, chaired by Lieutenant General Yuri Lastochkin, Chief of the Electronic Warfare Troops of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, was attended by representatives of the defense agencies of the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Republic of Tajikistan, the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation of the Russian Federation and a group of officers from the CSTO Joint Staff headed by Lieutenant General Anatoly Yakovlev, Head of the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces) Application Planning Department.
During the meeting, the participants discussed the experience of using electronic warfare forces and means in modern armed conflicts, the results of research into the organization of joint use of electronic warfare units within the framework of the joint training with the CSTO CRRF "Interaction-2023", as well as the prospects for the development of military-technical cooperation in the field of equipping with compatible samples of electronic warfare equipment.
Based on the results of the discussion, it was deemed advisable to further improve the Organization's regulatory legal framework in the area of electronic warfare.
Photo: Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Kazakhstan
