On May 25, 2026, a meeting took place at the Secretariat of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) between CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov and the Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the Russian Federation, Kazem Jalali.
On May 20, consultations of representatives (experts) of the defense agencies of the CSTO member states aimed at improving air defense and developing the CSTO Collective Aviation Forces were held via videoconference at the CSTO Joint Staff headquarters.
On May 20–21, 2026, a Coordination Meeting of Chief Narcologists of the CSTO member states was held in St. Petersburg within the framework of the Russian Federation’s chairmanship in the Collective Security Treaty Organization.
On May 19, 2026, Acting CSTO Deputy Secretary General Samat Ordabayev met in Vienna with Director of the Division for Operations of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime Bo Mathiasen.
On May 19, 2026, an international round table on the topic “CSTO: together for strengthening international peace and stability” was held at the Hofburg Palace in Vienna, Austria, on the sidelines of the OSCE Forum for Security Co-operation in Europe.
A meeting was held between the CSTO Secretary General Imangali Tasmagambetov and the Chairman of the Russian State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin
13.10.2025
On October 13, 2025, in Moscow, the CSTO Secretary General Imangali Tasmagambetov met with Vyacheslav Volodin, the Chairman of the Russian State Duma and the Chairman of the CSTO Parliamentary Assembly, where they had a detailed exchange of views on the situation in the Organization's area of responsibility and a number of other regions.
The interlocutors have discussed preparations for the meeting of the Council of the CSTO Parliamentary Assembly, as well as a number of pressing tasks facing the Organization in the context of Russia's chairmanship in 2026.
Imangali Tasmagambetov has reported on preparations for the upcoming joint meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers, the Council of Defense Ministers, the Committee of Secretaries of Security Councils, and the session of the CSTO Collective Security Council in November this year.