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.
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.
The CSTO Secretary General Imangali Tasmagambetov met with leading Russian experts in the field of international politics
On October 16, 2025, a meeting was held at the CSTO Secretariat between CSTO Secretary General Imangali Tasmagambetov, Dean of the Faculty of International Relations at MGIMO University Andrei Sushencov, and Deputy Director of the Center for Comprehensive European and International Studies at the Faculty of World Economy and World Politics at the Higher School of Economics Dmitry Suslov.
The event was the latest in a series of meetings between the CSTO Secretary General and representatives of the expert community of the Organization's member states. Its central theme was the role of the United States in contemporary international affairs, including Washington's geopolitical strategy toward the EU and China, as well as the prospects for Russian-American relations.
The interlocutors exchanged views on a wide range of topical military and political issues and touched upon the issue of Eurasian security.
