On June 18, 2026, the 24th Meeting of the Interstate Commission for Military-Economic Cooperation of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (ICMEC CSTO) was held in Minsk on the sidelines of the 3rd International Security Industry Exhibition “National Security. Belarus 2026”. The meeting was chaired by Dmitry Stefanovich, Head of the Belarusian National Section of the ICMEC and Deputy Chairman of the State Authority for Military Industry of the Republic of Belarus.
On June 18, 2026, the 2nd Military-Economic Conference of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, entitled “Development of Cooperation among the Defense Industries (Military-Industrial Complexes) of the CSTO Member States: 20 Years of Practical Cooperation”, was held in Minsk on the sidelines of the 3rd International Security Industry Exhibition “National Security. Belarus 2026”. The event brought together representatives of relevant ministries, agencies, defense enterprises, and other institutions and organizations of the CSTO member states.
A delegation of the CSTO Secretariat, headed by CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov, is taking part in the 3rd International Security Industry Exhibition “National Security. Belarus 2026”, being held in Minsk from June 17 to 19, 2026.
Regular meeting of the Working Group on Electronic Warfare under the CSTO Council of Defense Ministers held in Saint Petersburg
The second staff negotiations on the preparation for the operational-strategic exercise "Combat Brotherhood-2019" with the CSTO Collective Rapid Reaction Forces and the divisions of material and technical support of the armed forces
24.05.2019A group of officers headed by Lieutenant-General Hasan Kaloyev, First Deputy Chief of the CSTO Joint Staff, representatives of the CSTO Secretariat and a delegation of interested ministries and departments from the Republic of Armenia, the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Russian Federation and the Republic of Tajikistan took part in the negotiations.
In the course of the staff negotiations, the basics of the plans of the exercises and the order of their conduct, the administration staff of the exercise membership, the CSTO CRRF Command Force, the contingents, the logistics support office, and the organization of comprehensive support were discussed.
The reconnaissance of the exercise areas allowed on-site consideration of the issues of equipping control points, locating management and trainees in field conditions, weapons storage sites, military and special equipment, ammunition, as well as practical procedures for the CSTO CRRF contingents and the logistic support divisions of the CSTO member states.
The "Interaction-2019" and the "Echelon-2019" will be held at the second stage of the joint operational-strategic exercise "Combat Brotherhood-2019", in which military contingents and the formation of special forces and means will work out the preparation and conducting a joint operation to localize a border military conflict in the Eastern European collective security region.
It should be reminded that last year more than 10 thousand people, more than 1500 units of armament and military equipment, including more than 90 units of aircraft, were involved in the joint operational-strategic doctrine “Combat Bratherhood-2018”.
