On 23–24 April 2026, a meeting of the Working Group on Military-Economic Cooperation under the Chairman of the CSTO Interstate Commission on Military-Economic Cooperation was held
On 20 April 2026, a meeting of the Council of the CSTO Parliamentary Assembly was held in Moscow under the chairmanship of the Russian side. During the meeting, CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov delivered a report entitled “On the progress in implementing the decisions of the November (2025) session of the CSTO Collective Security Council and measures taken to counter challenges and threats to collective security.”
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.
A working meeting of the heads of the defense communication management bodies of the CSTO member states was held.
27.07.2023
From 25 to 27 July, the CSTO Joint Staff hosted a working meeting of the heads of defense communication management bodies of the CSTO member states.
The event was attended by representatives of the defense authorities of the Republic of Armenia, the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Russian Federation, the Republic of Tajikistan, the CSTO Joint Staff and the CSTO Secretariat.
Addressing the participants of the working meeting, the Chief of the CSTO Joint Staff, Colonel General Anatoly Sidorov, noted that the most important area of development of the Collective Security Treaty Organization was the improvement of the system of interstate information cooperation and the management system of the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces), the technical basis of which was the communications system. He also noted that the experience of the peacekeeping operation in the Republic of Kazakhstan and the annual joint trainings demonstrated the need to coordinate the efforts of the CSTO member states to improve the CSTO communication system.
The CSTO Joint Staff, in cooperation with defense agencies, has developed draft Recommendations on the organization of communications in contingents of CSTO Troops (Collective Forces), which have been tested during joint operational and combat training activities. The document has now undergone internal national co-ordination and will be submitted for approval to the members of the Council of Defense Ministers and the Committee of Secretaries of the CSTO Security Council in November this year.
During the working session, Colonel Vitaly Kenyaykin, Head of the Department for Organisation of Communications and Automated Troop Control Systems at the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces) Planning and Training Centre, made a presentation on the following topic "Perspective image of the CSTO communication system, immediate and future tasks for its formation".
Particular attention was paid to the information provided by the representative of the Russian Federation on the experience of using radio and satellite communications in armed conflicts.
A representative of the Republic of Belarus presented a report on practical ways of implementing possible areas for the development of means of communication in the interests of the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces) proposed at the International Military and Scientific Conference in Minsk.
The representative of the Republic of Kazakhstan spoke about the experience of organizing communications and data transmission during the joint training "Interaction-2022" with the CSTO Collective Rapid Reaction Forces. In the course of the discussion of this issue, it was decided to plan the study of issues related to the organization of radio networks for cooperation in contingents of the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces) with the participation of radio reconnaissance and electronic warfare forces and means within the framework of the trainings conducted in the CSTO format.
Representatives of the defense agencies of the Republic of Armenia, the Kyrgyz Republic and the Republic of Tajikistan made presentations on improving the technical basis for intergovernmental information interaction.
The participants in the working session also heard a report by a representative of the Marshal of the Soviet Union S.M. Budyonny Military Academy of Communications on the possibility of developing unified standards, protocols and interfaces necessary for the development of advanced means of communication planned for use in contingents of the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces).
