On May 6, 2026, a meeting was held at the CSTO Secretariat between the CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykovand newly appointed Permanent and Plenipotentiary Representative of the Republic of Belarus to the CSTO Vladimir Bespaly.
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.”
The 27th meeting of the Coordination Council of the Heads of Competent Authorities of the CSTO Member States for Countering Illegal Migration was held
03.12.2024
On 3 December 2024, the 27th meeting of the Coordination Council of the Heads of the Competent Authorities for Countering the Illegal Migration of the Member States of the Collective Security Treaty Organization was held by videoconferencing.
Delegations from the Ministries of Internal Affairs of the Republics of Belarus and Kazakhstan, Russia, the Republic of Tajikistan and the Ministry of Labor, Social Security and Migration of the Kyrgyz Republic, as well as the CSTO Secretariat took part in the Coordination Council meeting chaired by the First Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, Alexander Gorovoy.
The meeting of the Coordination Council was opened by Igor Lepekha, Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan. In his speech, he stressed that the Collective Security Treaty Organization played a key role in preserving stability and ensuring security in the region, which were achieved, among other things, thanks to the coordinated and fruitful work of the members of the Coordination Council.
Valery Semerikov, the CSTO Deputy Secretary General, made a welcoming address to the meeting participants. He briefed the participants on the outcome of the CSTO Summit in Astana and emphasized the need to improve the effectiveness of work in countering illegal migration. At the same time, he made a number of proposals for consideration by the Coordination Council members.
During the meeting, the participants discussed the state of the migration situation in the CSTO member states, summarized the results of the CSTO regional operation “Illegal-2024” to counter illegal migration, and also outlined the main areas of joint activity in countering illegal migration for the coming period.
The participants in the Coordination Council meeting did not ignore the issue of improving the quality of the work of the competent bodies of the CSTO member States in combating illegal migration through the adaptation of national legislation to existing or foreseeable threats. The need to intensify the activities of individual CSTO member states in joining international agreements defining the procedure for the exchange of information as part of states' efforts to combat illegal migration was noted.
The meeting also discussed the results of the Coordination Council's activities in 2024 and heard reports from the heads of the competent authorities of the migration departments (agencies) of the CSTO member states on the work done this year.
After the reports of the responsible persons on the agenda items and substantive discussions, the final documents were signed by the meeting participants.
