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".
The VII Coordination Meeting of high-level Representatives of the CSTO Secretariat and the ICRC was held
07.12.2023
On 7 December 2023, in Moscow, the VII Coordination Meeting of high-level representatives of the Collective Security Treaty Organization Secretariat and the International Committee of the Red Cross was held.
The Coordination Meeting was attended by: the Deputy Secretary General of the Collective Security Treaty Organization Takhir Khairulloyev, the Head of the Directorate of Operations of the International Committee of the Red Cross Martin Schüpp, officials from the CSTO Secretariat and the CSTO Joint Staff, and representatives of the ICRC Regional Delegation in the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus.
The agenda of the Coordination Meeting included a wide range of issues on new humanitarian challenges and the dissemination of knowledge of international humanitarian law, including the participation of the ICRC representatives in the professional training of the CSTO Joint Staff and in joint trainings of the forces and means of the CSTO collective security system.
There was a thorough exchange of views on the development of cooperation between the ICRC and the CSTO for the immediate and more distant future, as well as on the continuation of the practice of the Parties' participation in events organized by the CSTO and the ICRC, including the involvement of the ICRC representatives in the preparation and conduct of joint trainings of the forces and means of the CSTO collective security system.
An important result of the event was the confirmation of mutual interest in improving the mechanism of cooperation between the CSTO and the ICRC on issues of compliance with the provisions of the international humanitarian law applicable in armed conflicts. Specific steps were identified for further broadening and deepening the dialog on humanitarian problems and issues of mutual interest.
The results of the event were reflected in the Resolution of the VII Coordination Meeting, which will determine the main directions of interaction between our Organizations in the near future.
The Parties agreed to hold the next Coordination Meeting in 2025 in Geneva.
