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.”
Experts from the CSTO Secretariat, the CSTO Crisis Response Center and the SCO Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure held consultations
09.06.2023
An expert meeting of representatives of the CSTO Secretariat, the CSTO Crisis Response Center and the Executive Committee of the SCO RATS took place on June 9, 2023 in Moscow as part of the cooperation between the Collective Security Treaty Organization and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure Executive Committee on the theme: "Using Information Technologies".
Representatives of the CSTO Secretariat shared their experience in this area.
They discussed the exchange of information and organization of interaction in the following areas:
- countering modern challenges and threats with a focus on ensuring information security;
- joint scientific and practical events (conferences, round tables, seminars and workshops).
