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.
Condolences by the CSTO Secretary General on the tragic events in Dagestan
24.06.2024To the Head of the Republic of Dagestan
S.A. MELIKOV
Dear Sergei Alimovich,
The Secretariat of the Collective Security Treaty Organization took the news of the tragic events in Makhachkala and Derbent with a sense of deep pain.
Allow me to express to you and the multinational people of the Republic of Dagestan our deepest condolences on the deaths of police officers and civilians. The Organization grieves together with the entire Dagestani people and shares the grief of irreparable loss. We strongly condemn the actions of terrorists and any attempts to incite interreligious discord.
I wish fortitude and self-control to you and the people of Dagestan in these sorrowful days, and speedy recovery to all the injured.
With deep condolences,
The CSTO Secretary General
I.N. Tasmagambetov