On July 4, 2025, a delegation of the CSTO Secretariat visited the Central Military-Patriotic Park of Culture and Recreation of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation "Patriot".
The Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov received the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the CSTO member states and the Secretary General of the Organization in Cholpon-Ata on June 30. The meeting was attended by the Foreign Ministers of Kyrgyzstan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Russia and Tajikistan.
On June 30, 2025, a regular meeting of the CSTO Council of Foreign Ministers was held in Cholpon-Ata (the Kyrgyz Republic) under the chairmanship of the Kyrgyz side, which was attended by the Organization's Secretary General Imangali Tasmagambetov.
Safar Umarzoda, Head of the Department for Countering Challenges and Threats of the CSTO Secretariat, took part in a special event (side-event) on "Countering Radicalization leading to terrorism and Extremism" organized by the Russian Federation on the margins of the OSCE Annual Conference on Security Review, where he reported on the measures taken by the CSTO on countering terrorism and extremism, and willingness to share the experience gained.
The CSTO Permanent Council held its first meeting in 2024
10.01.2024
A meeting of the CSTO Permanent Council was held on 10 January 2024. Taking into account the chairmanship of the Republic of Kazakhstan in the Organization from 1 January this year, in accordance with the principle of rotation the Permanent Representative of Kazakhstan to the CSTO, Marat Syzdykov, was elected Chairman of the Permanent Council.
In the course of the meeting a number of documents were considered, including the draft Action Plan for the implementation of decisions of the November (2023) session of the CSTO Collective Security Council and the fulfilment of the priority areas of the Organization’s activities during the presidency of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
