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.
On June 19, 2025, in Bosteri, Issyk-Kul region of the Kyrgyz Republic, the XIX meeting of the Council of the Advisory Coordination Center of the Collective Security Treaty Organization on Computer Incident Response (CSTO CCC) was held, which was attended by delegations of representatives of national authorized bodies for responding to computer incidents of the CSTO member states.
On June 24-26, the second staff negotiations were held in the Kyrgyz Republic on the organization and conduct an operational meeting with the Command of the Collective Rapid Deployment Forces of the Central Asian Region (CAR CRDF) and a command and staff training with units of the CAR CRDF "Rubezh-2025", conducted as part of the joint operational and strategic training "Combat Brotherhood-2025".
Joint Position of the SCO RATS, the CIS ATC and the CSTO Secretariat on Combating Terrorism and Extremism was signed
16.02.2022On February 16, 2022, in the headquarters of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) in Moscow, Joint Position of the Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, the Anti-Terrorist Center of the Commonwealth of Independent States and the Secretariat of the Collective Security Treaty Organization on Combating Terrorism and Extremism was signed.
Ruslan Mirzaev, the Director of the Executive Committee of the Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, Yevgeny Sysoyev, the Head of the Anti-Terrorist Center of the Commonwealth of Independent States, and Stanislav Zas, the Collective Security Treaty Organization Secretary General, took part in the signing ceremony.
The document declares common approaches to countering international terrorism and extremism, the Parties' support for the UN Security Council resolution 2354 (2017) on countering the spread of terrorist ideas and implementing the requirements of the UN Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy on addressing the conditions conducive to the spread of terrorism, preventing and combating it, as well as the implementation of work to de-radicalize and eradicate the breeding ground for terrorism.
The Parties attach importance to consolidating the efforts of the entire world community and support the formation of a broad anti-terrorist coalition under the auspices of the UN as part of the coordination of the international community's efforts to counter terrorism. They consider it necessary to take effective collective measures to prevent and suppress the spread and propaganda of terrorist and related radical ideology, including religious extremism, incitement to terrorism and recruitment to terrorist and extremist organizations, attaching great importance to countering the use of the Internet by terrorist organizations.
The Parties draw attention to the importance of taking concerted measures against participants in armed conflicts on the side of international terrorist organizations, including those displaced to their countries of origin or to third countries.
Within the framework of common approaches, the Parties intend to strengthen interaction and promote cooperation among the SCO member States, the CIS member States and the CSTO member States in counter-terrorism, including legal assistance in searching for and bringing terrorists and their accomplices to justice, for the benefit of peace and security of the peoples of the countries and regions that are members of the Organization.
