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.
On 15 April 2026, a meeting was held in Bishkek between CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov and President of the Kyrgyz Republic Sadyr Japarov.
Condolences of the CSTO Secretariat and the Joint Staff on the death of retired Army President Mahmut Gareev, President of the Academy of Military Sciences of Russia
25.12.2019
The Secretariat and the Joint Staff of the Collective Security Treaty Organization express their deepest condolences on the death of retired Army President Gareev Mahmut Akhmetovich, a veteran of the Great Patriotic War, a prominent military leader, a famous scientist, and selflessly devoted to his Fatherland .
We share with the family, relatives and friends of Makhmut Akhmetovich the bitterness of their irreparable loss that befell them.
The fond memory of retired army general Gareev Mahmut Akhmetovich will forever remain in our hearts.
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