On December 4, at the invitation of the Iranian side, a delegation from the Joint Staff of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, led by Chief of the Joint Staff Colonel General Andrei Serdyukov, took part in the final stage of joint anti-terrorism trainings conducted by the competent authorities of the member states of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization “Sahand-Anti-Terror 2025” in the Islamic Republic of Iran.
The CSTO Deputy Secretary General Valery Semerikov took part in the “BRICS+ 2025 Anti-Terrorism Conference: National and Regional Counter-Terrorism Strategies in the Context of Emerging Challenges and Security Threats”, held in Moscow.
A delegation from the CSTO Secretariat, led by the Deputy Secretary General Taalatbek Masadikov, took part from 1 to 5 December in the VIII Coordination Meeting of High-Level Representatives of the Secretariat of the Collective Security Treaty Organization and the International Committee of the Red Cross (hereinafter referred to as the Coordination Meeting) at the ICRC headquarters in Geneva.
Heads of military-medical services have discussed the medical support of the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces)
21.04.2023
On April 19-21, 2023, in Minsk, a working meeting of representatives of medical services of defense agencies of the CSTO member states was held.
The participants of the working meeting paid particular attention to discussing common approaches to first aid and the formation of standards for first aid in the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces), taking into account the national legislations of the CSTO member states.
They have discussed the standardization of certain areas of medical support, the formation of a system of remote telemedicine consultations to provide assistance to medical specialists of the main (central) military-medical organizations of the CSTO member states.
An exchange of views took place on issues of medical support for joint (special) trainings held in the Republic of Kazakhstan in 2022 and medical support for planned joint trainings with the CSTO Collective Forces this year.
At the end of the event, the heads of the military medical services outlined ways to improve and develop cooperation on medical support for the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces).
Presentations were made by Colonel Alexander Malyukh, Head of the Military Medical Department of the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Belarus; Colonel Yerzhan Smaiyl, Head of the Chief Military Medical Department of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Kazakhstan; Amanbai Matisakov, Head of the Military Medical Department of the Ministry of Defense of the Kyrgyz Republic, Colonel of Medical Service; Oleg Kalachev, Head of the Department - Deputy Head of the Main Military Medical Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, Major General of Medical Service, and Colonel Ivan Pchelnikov, Head of Medical Service of the CSTO Joint Staff.
Within the framework of the working meeting, at the invitation of the Minister of Health of the Republic of Belarus Dmitry Pinevich, the participants visited the exhibition of pharmaceutical industry samples and production workshops of the Republican Unitary Production Enterprise "Belmedpreparaty”.
