A working meeting chaired by Lieutenant General Anatoly Yakovlev, Head of the CSTO Troop Deployment Planning Department (Collective Forces), was held with the participation of representatives of the defense ministries of the Republic of Belarus (via videoconferencing), the Russian Federation, and the CSTO Joint Staff.
On 5 March 2026, a working meeting was held at the Secretariat of the Collective Security Treaty Organization between CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov and Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Belarus to the Russian Federation Yuri Seliverstov.
On 4 March, Secretary of the Security Council of the Kyrgyz Republic Adilet Orozbekov presented certificates of advanced training in the field of “Information Security of Automated Systems” to civil servants.
The Protocol amending the Agreement on Cooperation of the CSTO Member States in the Field of Transportation of Military and Other Formations, Their Movable Property, as well as Military Products, and the Protocol amending the Agreement on the Status of Formations of Forces and Means of the CSTO Collective Security System, signed during the session of the CSTO Collective Security Council in Astana on 28 November 2024, have entered into force.
The CSTO Secretariat has received with deep concern reports of the launch of massive strikes by the United States and Israel against the territory of Iran, accompanied, inter alia, by civilian casualties.
Consultations of the CSTO member States on "Current Issues of Arms Control, Disarmament and Nonproliferation" were held
Delegations of the CSTO member States, the CSTO Deputy Secretary General Samat Ordabaev and the CSTO Secretariat members took part in the consultations of the CSTO member States on "Current Issues of Arms Control Disarmament and Nonproliferation", chaired by the Republic of Armenia, which took place in Moscow on March 15, this year.
There was a fruitful and detailed discussion of current issues and prospects for the development of the arms control, disarmament, and nonproliferation situation. The participants compared approaches to specific aspects of nuclear arms reduction and limitation, compliance with and strengthening of existing international treaties and agreements in the field of the arms control, disarmament, and nonproliferation.
The readiness of the CSTO member States to continue collective efforts to build an international system of reliable, equal and indivisible security for all, to restore trust and mutual respect in interstate relations, and also to further reconcile and coordinate their positions on the arms control, disarmament, and nonproliferation issues in the interests of a lasting peace and strengthening international security was reaffirmed.