A working meeting between CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov and Vasily Khristoforov, Director of the Institute of International Relations and Political Sciences of the Russian State University for the Humanities (RSUH) and Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, was held at the Secretariat of the Collective Security Treaty Organization.
On June 12, 2026, a conference entitled “Central Asia – the Core of the SCO: A Space of Peace and Shared Development” was held in Dushanbe under the auspices of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Tajikistan. Acting CSTO Deputy Secretary General Samat Ordabayev took part in the event.
On June 10, 2026, a regular meeting of the CSTO Council of Foreign Ministers was held in Kazan (Russian Federation) under the chairmanship of the Russian side, with the participation of CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov. CIS Deputy Secretary General Denis Trefilov and SCO Deputy Secretary General Oleg Kopylov were also invited to attend the meeting.
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.
Consultations were held on international flights of the armed forces of the CSTO member States
06.04.2022
On April 5-6 in Moscow, on the basis of the CSTO Joint Staff, representatives of the concerned ministries and departments of the CSTO member States held consultations on the issue "On organization and conducting of flights (overflights) in the airspace of CSTO member States and international flights of aviation of the armed forces of CSTO member States".
Representatives of the concerned ministries and departments in the Republic of Armenia, the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic (via video conferencing), the Russian Federation, the Republic of Tajikistan as well as the CSTO Joint Staff and the CSTO Secretariat participated in the consultations which were conducted under the general supervision of the Head of the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces) Military Planning Directorate Lieutenant General Anatoly Yakovlev.
Speaking to the participants of the event, Lieutenant General Anatoly Yakovlev noted that the January events in the Republic of Kazakhstan showed the urgency and importance of a rapid solution to international flights related to air transport of military contingents, weapons and military equipment, to ensure an immediate response to the current crisis situation.
In the course of the consultations, common approaches to improving the organization and provision of international flights of the armed forces of the CSTO member States, interagency and interstate coordination of permits for international transit flights related to the transportation of weapons, military equipment and military property were discussed.
In order to improve the CSTO regulatory legal framework, it was deemed advisable to propose a number of amendments to the Agreement on the Status of Formations of the CSTO Collective Security System on 10 December 2010 and to the Agreement on Cooperation of the CSTO Member States in Transportation of Military and Other Formations, Their Movable Property and Military Goods on 15 September 2015. They have discussed the implementation of the norms of the agreements adopted in the format of the Organization into the national legislation of the CSTO member States.
