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.”
First consultations of representatives of legal services of foreign ministries of the CSTO member States on legal aspects of the Organization's activities were held
06.09.2022
The CSTO Secretary General Stanislav Zas addressed the participants of the event, noting the symbolism of holding consultations in the year of the 30th anniversary of the signing of the Collective Security Treaty and the 20th anniversary of the establishment of the CSTO. Stanislav Zas stressed that during these years member States established an extensive legal basis for cooperation in all spheres of the Organization's activities, which was based on 60 international agreements, 335 decisions of the Collective Security Council and almost 1.5 thousand legal acts of other CSTO bodies.
In the course of the event, a number of topical international legal issues were considered in order to improve the legal framework for cooperation within the CSTO format. As a result of the consultations, it was recommended to continue the Secretariat's work on the digitalization of the legal and contractual framework for cooperation, as well as to prepare proposals to update the methodological recommendations for drafting international treaties concluded within the framework of the Collective Security Treaty Organization.
