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.
A working meeting between CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov and Director of the Institute of China and Contemporary Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences Kirill Babaev was held at the Secretariat of the Collective Security Treaty Organization.
From June 2 to 4, the Republic of Belarus hosted the second staff talks on the organization and conduct of the CSTO Peacekeeping Forces command-and-staff exercise “Indestructible Brotherhood 2026” and the special exercise “Barrier 2026” involving the CSTO Joint CBRN Protection and Medical Support Formation.
On June 3, 2026, a regular meeting of the CSTO Council of Defense Ministers (CDM) was held at the Patriot Central Park of the Russian Ministry of Defense under the chairmanship of the Russian side. The meeting was attended by CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov and Chief of the CSTO Joint Staff Andrey Serdyukov.
From June 1 to 3, Saratov (Russian Federation) is hosting a series of events involving the member states of the Collective Security Treaty Organization aimed at strengthening the collective response system to biological threats.
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.
