On 20 December, a joint training session was held between the duty shifts of the CSTO Crisis Response Center and the command posts of the defense and emergency ministries of the Organization's member states.
On 10 and 11 December, the Joint Staff of the Collective Security Treaty Organization hosted videoconference consultations of representatives of interested ministries and departments of the CSTO member states on the organization of joint training activities in 2026 for the CSTO collective security system's command and control bodies and formations.
On December 11, 2024, Taalatbek Masadykov, the CSTO Deputy Secretary General and Special Representative of the CSTO Secretary General for Peacekeeping, held a meeting with the delegation of the Monitoring Group (MG) of the UN Security Council Sanctions Committees 1267/1989/2253 on ISIS and “Al-Qaeda” and 1988 on the Taliban Movement.
On December 11, 2024, the 40th meeting of the Working Group on Afghanistan under the CSTO Ministerial Council was held with the participation of the CSTO Deputy Secretary General S. Ordabayev and the CSTO Deputy Secretary General T. Masadykov. The event was also attended by delegations of the Organization's member states and representatives of the UNOCT, the UNRCCA, the CIS ATC, the Coordination Service of the CIS Council of Commanders of Border Troops, the SCO RATS, and the ICRC.
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.
