On May 7, the CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov held a working meeting in Moscow at the CSTO Joint Staff aimed at improving issues related to crisis response and expert cooperation.
On May 6, 2026, a meeting was held at the CSTO Secretariat between the CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykovand newly appointed Permanent and Plenipotentiary Representative of the Republic of Belarus to the CSTO Vladimir Bespaly.
28 April marks the Day of the CSTO Joint Staff. It should be recalled that on 28 April 2003, in Dushanbe, the Collective Security Council, guided by the need to establish a military staff body responsible for implementing the military component of the Collective Security Treaty, adopted the Decision “On the Establishment of the Joint Staff of the Collective Security Treaty Organization.”
The 13th meeting of the General Secretaries of the CSTO, the CIS and the SCO took place
03.09.2025
On September 3, 2025, the thirteenth meeting of Senior Administrative Officials of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, the Commonwealth of Independent States and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization was held in Beijing “on the margins” of the meeting of the Council of Heads of the SCO member states and the “SCO+” format. It was attended by the CSTO Secretary General Imangali Tasmagambetov, the CIS Secretary General Sergei Lebedev and the SCO Secretary General Nurlan Yermekbayev.
In a friendly atmosphere, the sides exchanged views on topical issues of the international situation, as well as priority areas of activity of the three organizations. Proposals for further development and strengthening of cooperation in the field of regional security and countering new challenges and threats were discussed.
There was a unanimous opinion that the CSTO, the CIS and the SCO have an ever-increasing role to play in maintaining global peace and regional security and preventing instability. The parties stated their commitment to the formation of a new Eurasian security architecture, the development of economic cooperation and interaction in the cultural sphere. The intention to ensure the linking of integration projects and the harmonization of relations between development centers in Eurasia was confirmed.
A signing ceremony was held for the Roadmap for the development of cooperation between the CSTO, the CIS and the SCO, as well as a joint statement by the Secretaries General of the CSTO, the CIS and the SCO on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II and the 80th anniversary of the founding of the United Nations.
