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.
An extended meeting was held to finalize the draft CSTO Special Interstate Policy for strengthening sections of the Tajik-Afghan Border
01.03.2024
On 27 February - 1 March 2024, in Moscow (Russian Federation), a joint meeting of representatives of interested ministries and agencies of the CSTO member states and members of the Working Group to finalize the draft CSTO Special Interstate Policy for strengthening sections of the Tajik-Afghan Border was held under the chairmanship of the Tajik side.
Alexei Shevtsov, the Deputy Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, and Valery Semerikov, the CSTO Deputy Secretary General, addressed the meeting participants.
In his speech, Valery Semerikov expressed confidence that, given the participation of the representative delegations, there was every opportunity to reach agreed decisions on the draft Policy.
Following the results of the meeting, the draft Policy and the draft decisions on it by the CSTO bodies were finalized and an agreement was reached to submit the above draft documents to the CSTO Permanent Council for consideration in order to take a decision on sending them to the CSTO member states for additional coordination.
