On July 4, 2025, a delegation of the CSTO Secretariat visited the Central Military-Patriotic Park of Culture and Recreation of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation "Patriot".
The Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov received the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the CSTO member states and the Secretary General of the Organization in Cholpon-Ata on June 30. The meeting was attended by the Foreign Ministers of Kyrgyzstan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Russia and Tajikistan.
On June 30, 2025, a regular meeting of the CSTO Council of Foreign Ministers was held in Cholpon-Ata (the Kyrgyz Republic) under the chairmanship of the Kyrgyz side, which was attended by the Organization's Secretary General Imangali Tasmagambetov.
Safar Umarzoda, Head of the Department for Countering Challenges and Threats of the CSTO Secretariat, took part in a special event (side-event) on "Countering Radicalization leading to terrorism and Extremism" organized by the Russian Federation on the margins of the OSCE Annual Conference on Security Review, where he reported on the measures taken by the CSTO on countering terrorism and extremism, and willingness to share the experience gained.
The first International military-scientific conference on the improvement of the Joint communications system and automated control systems of the CSTO Collective forces was held
08.06.2022
On June 8 this year at the International Military Center in Moscow, for the first time, an international military science conference devoted to the improvement of the CSTO Unified communications system and automated control systems for troops (Collective forces) was held.
Representatives of defense agencies of Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Tajikistan, the CSTO Joint Staff and Secretariat, the Secretariat of the Council of defense ministers of the CIS member states, military-educational and military-scientific organizations, and industry participated in the conference.
The event took place under the general leadership of Colonel General Anatoly Sidorov, chief of the CSTO Joint staff. Addressing the conference participants, he said: "The most important area of development of the Collective Security Treaty Organization is to improve the system of interstate information interaction and the control system of the CSTO Troops (Collective forces), the technical basis of which is the communication system. The experience of the peacekeeping operation in the Republic of Kazakhstan and the annual joint exercises shows the necessity of coordination of efforts of the CSTO member states on the issues of establishing and developing the communication system.
In the course of the speeches was noted that the CSTO Joint staff in cooperation with defense and other interested ministries and departments of the Organization member states developed and approved by the CSTO Collective security council a CSTO protected multiservice communication network scheme, draft Regulations on the CSTO communication system, which define the purpose, tasks and requirements for the communication system of Organization, and also draft Recommendations on organization of communication in the Components of the CSTO Military (Collective forces), which are proposed for testing in 2022, were prepared.
During the conference, an exhibition of exhibits by leading representatives of the defense industry in the field of communications was organized, who presented samples of communications equipment and software planned for use in the CSTO communications system.
The event provided an opportunity to discuss the results of research on the functioning of the communications system and ACST in the course of joint operational and combat training of command and control bodies and forces of the CSTO collective security system, as well as to outline ways to improve this direction.
