On June 9, 2026, a delegation of the Secretariat of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, headed by CSTO Deputy Secretary General Valery Semerikov, took part in the 19th Meeting of Heads of Lead Counter-Terrorism Units of the Competent Authorities of the CIS Member States and Heads of National Structures Responsible for Coordinating Counter-Terrorism and Counter-Extremism Activities. The event was organized by the Anti-Terrorism Center of the CIS Member States.
A working meeting between CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov and Director of the Institute of China and Contemporary Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences Kirill Babaev was held at the Secretariat of the Collective Security Treaty Organization.
From June 2 to 4, the Republic of Belarus hosted the second staff talks on the organization and conduct of the CSTO Peacekeeping Forces command-and-staff exercise “Indestructible Brotherhood 2026” and the special exercise “Barrier 2026” involving the CSTO Joint CBRN Protection and Medical Support Formation.
On June 3, 2026, a regular meeting of the CSTO Council of Defense Ministers (CDM) was held at the Patriot Central Park of the Russian Ministry of Defense under the chairmanship of the Russian side. The meeting was attended by CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov and Chief of the CSTO Joint Staff Andrey Serdyukov.
From June 1 to 3, Saratov (Russian Federation) is hosting a series of events involving the member states of the Collective Security Treaty Organization aimed at strengthening the collective response system to biological threats.
The CSTO Deputy Secretary General Takhir Khayrulloyev had a meeting with the leadership of the Regional Delegation of the International Committee of the Red Cross
03.03.2021
On March 3, 2021, the CSTO Secretariat (Moscow) hosted a working meeting between the CSTO Deputy Secretary General Takhir Khayrulloyev and the Deputy Head of the Regional Delegation of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in the Russian Federation, the Republic of Belarus and the Republic of Moldova, Francisco Javier Sepero Garcia.
The parties discussed issues related to the implementation of “The Plan of cooperation the CSTO and the ICRC between the CSTO Secretariat and the ICRC Regional Delegation in the Russian Federation, the Republic of Belarus and the Republic of Moldova for 2021”, as well as issues of developing cooperation between the CSTO and the ICRC of mutual interest.
T. Khayrulloyev and S. Garcia clarified the formats of the joint events of the CSTO and the ICRC planned in 2021 and the time frame. At the same time, an exchange of views took place and mutual understanding was reached on the procedure for interaction on the preparation of the VII High-level Coordination Meeting between the CSTO and the ICRC (Geneva).
In addition, the issue of working out the possibility of the ICRC's participation in joint trainings with the CSTO Peacekeeping Forces "Indestructible Brotherhood - 2021" in the Russian Federation and with the Collective Rapid Reaction Forces of the CSTO "Interaction - 2021" in the territory of the Republic of Tajikistan was also raised.
An important result of the meeting was the confirmation of mutual interest in the development of cooperation in key areas of international humanitarian law.
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