On 13 February, a traditional meeting was held in Moscow between the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergey Lavrov and the chairs of the parliamentary committees (commissions) of the CSTO member states responsible for international relations, defense and security. CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov and ambassadors of the Organization’s member states also took part in the event.
CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov addressed the Fifth meeting of the chairs of the parliamentary committees (commissions) of the CSTO member states responsible for international relations, defense and security.
Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, Chairman of the CSTO Committee of Secretaries of Security Councils (CSSC) Sergey Shoigu gave an extensive interview to the Interfax news agency, in which he commented on the key areas of the Organization’s activities in 2026.
On 12 February, a briefing was held at the CSTO Crisis Response Center by Chief of the CSTO Joint Staff Colonel General Andrey Nikolaevich Serdyukov on the topic “Results of the joint training of command and control bodies and forces of the CSTO collective security system in 2025 and tasks for 2026.”
The CSTO Deputy Secretary General Takhir Khairulloyev met with Boris Michel, Head of the International Committee of the Red Cross Regional Delegation to Russia and the Republic of Belarus.
16.08.2023
A working meeting between the CSTO Deputy Secretary General Takhir Khairulloyev and the Head of the Regional Delegation of the International Committee of the Red Cross in the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus, Boris Michel, was held at the Secretariat of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, on August 16.
The working meeting was also attended by members of the CSTO Secretariat and representatives of the ICRC Regional Delegation in the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus.
The sides exchanged views on the humanitarian situation in various regions amid growing international tension, on the participation of ICRC representatives in joint CSTO trainings, and on preparations for the VII Coordination Meeting of senior representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross and the Secretariat of the Collective Security Treaty Organization.
The meeting participants noted the positive results of the joint work with the ICRC Regional Delegation in the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus in the current year and identified the main areas for further cooperation.
One of the important results of the meeting was the confirmation of mutual interest in carrying out joint work to develop cooperation between the CSTO Secretariat and the ICRC in key areas of international humanitarian law.
