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.”
On 27 April 2026, within the framework of the International Scientific and Practical Conference “Contours of a New Architecture of Collective Security: Current Issues of Information and Analytical Partnership within the CSTO,” held at MGIMO University of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, a round table entitled “Eurasian Analytical Platform: New Approaches in a New Geopolitical Reality” took place. During the event, Head of the Information and Public Relations Department of the CSTO Secretariat Yuriy Shuvalov delivered a presentation on “The Eurasian Analytical Network: A New Cognitive Architecture of Collective Security.”
The Foreign Minister of the Republic of Armenia Ararat Mirzoyan had a meeting with the CSTO Secretary General Stanislav Zas
23.12.2021
On December 23, this year, the CSTO Secretary General Stanislav Zas, who is in Yerevan on a working visit, met with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Armenia, Chairman of the CSTO Ministerial Council, Ararat Mirzoyan.
In the course of the meeting, Ararat Mirzoyan stressed the importance of summing up the results of the draft "Action Plan for the implementation of the decisions of the September (2021) session of the CSTO Collective Security Council and the implementation of the organization's priority activities during the Armenian presidency" presented by Stanislav Zas. The CSTO Secretary General spoke in detail about the content of the draft Plan and said that the Secretariat and the CSTO Joint Staff would make all necessary efforts to implement the Plan in a timely manner.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Armenia also presented the situation in the Armenia's eastern border zone and stressed the need for practical steps to increase the level of stability and security in accordance with the tripartite statement of November 26, 2021. He reiterated the importance of allied cooperation of the CSTO member States to ensure security and stability on a collective basis.
