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 Sevastopol
24.06.2024To the Governor of the city of Sevastopol
M.V. RAZVOZHAYEV
Dear Mikhail Vladimirovich,
The Secretariat of the Collective Security Treaty Organization has taken the news of the tragic events in Sevastopol with a sense of deep pain.
Allow me to express to you and the people of the city of Sevastopol our deepest condolences for the loss of civilian lives as a result of the missile attack. The Organization shares the grief of this irreparable loss. We strongly condemn any action against civilians.
I wish fortitude and self-control to you and the people of Sevastopol in these sorrowful days, and speedy recovery to the injured.
With deep condolences,
The CSTO Secretary General
I.N. Tasmagambetov
