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A meeting with officials from the national authorities of the Organization’s member states authorized to interact with the CSTO Crisis Response Centre was held in the Kyrgyz Republic
24.09.2025
From 22 to 24 September 2025, in Bishkek, at the Combat Training Center of the Armed Forces of the Kyrgyz Republic, a meeting was held with officials from the national authorities of the CSTO member states authorized to interact with the CSTO Crisis Response Center.
The event was attended by heads of centers (central command posts) of the defense departments of the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Russian Federation, and the Republic of Tajikistan, representatives of the ministries of foreign affairs, ministries of emergency situations, the CSTO Parliamentary Assembly, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, the CIS Anti-Terrorism Center, the Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, and others.
During the meeting, issues related to monitoring and analyzing the military-political situation in the CSTO collective security regions, forecasting its possible development and identifying signs of emerging crises (emergency situations), as well as existing threats and challenges to collective security were discussed.
Issues related to countering media and ideological aggression against the CSTO member states, the activities of the CSTO Parliamentary Assembly to improve the regulatory and legal framework, and the convergence and harmonization of the national legislation of CSTO member states in the field of crisis response were discussed.
In addition, issues related to the development of the CSTO command and control system (Collective Forces) were discussed with a view to ensuring the fulfilment of tasks in day-to-day activities and in responding to crisis (emergency) situations. An exchange of experience on the functioning of the system of inter-agency cooperation and information exchange in the interests of collective security was carried out.
Major General Arsen Rakhmanov, Head of the Center, delivered a report on the results of the CSTO Crisis Response Center activities.
The meeting participants held a working meeting with the Acting Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Kyrgyz Republic, who in his speech emphasized” the importance and necessity of further improving the crisis response system within the CSTO, given the current military-political situation in the Organization’s area of responsibility and in the world as a whole”.
The meeting participants paid military tribute to Soviet soldiers who died during the Great Patriotic War, laid a wreath from the Collective Security Treaty Organization at the Victory Monument, visited the National History Museum of the Kyrgyz Republic and the Memorial House-Museum of M.V. Frunze in Bishkek. The head of the CSTO Joint Staff delegation, on behalf of and on the instructions of the CSTO Secretary General, presented the museums with an encyclopedic publication entitled “The Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945”, dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the Soviet people's victory in the Great Patriotic War.
Photo: Ministry of Defense of the Kyrgyz Republic
