Servicemen of the Combined Arms Army of the Central Military District (CMD) have arrived in the Republic of Belarus to take part in the command-and-staff exercise with the CSTO Peacekeeping Forces “Indestructible Brotherhood-2026” and the special exercise with the CSTO joint NBC protection and medical support formation “Barrier-2026”.
On October 7, 2026, the Fourth Counter-Terrorism Forum opened in Minsk (Republic of Belarus), bringing together the CIS Conference on Countering Terrorism and Extremism, the SCO Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure international scientific and practical conference, and joint counter-terrorism exercises.
October 7 marks the 24th anniversary of the signing of the Charter of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, which formalized the establishment of the CSTO as an international regional organization. The goals set out in the document, including strengthening peace and stability and collectively protecting the independence, territorial integrity and sovereignty of the member states, remain the foundation for developing mutually beneficial, truly allied cooperation. On this basis, the Russian Federation is chairing the CSTO in 2026 under the motto “Collective security in a multipolar world: a common goal, shared responsibility.”
Meeting of the Working Group on Military-Economic Cooperation under the Chairman of the CSTO ICMEC was held
21.04.2022
On April 20-21, 2022, the CSTO Joint Staff held a meeting of the Working Group on Military-Economic Cooperation under the Chairman of the CSTO Interstate Commission on Military-Economic Cooperation.
The meeting was chaired by the Secretary of the CSTO Interstate Commission for Military-Economic Cooperation (ICMEC, Commission) Victor Zinoviev.
The meeting participants have discussed the implementation of the decisions of the XIX ICMEC meeting in Minsk in September 2021, as well as addressed a set of issues to be subsequently included into the draft Agenda of the XX ICMEC meeting to be held in September-October in the Russian Federation.
An important outcome of the meeting was that a significant portion of the draft documents reviewed received the support and approval of the participants.
Among the agreed documents are the draft decisions of the CSTO CMD and the CSTO ICMEC on the creation of an interstate system for cataloguing supplies for the armed forces of the CSTO member States and on regulating issues of mutual protection of rights to intellectual property obtained and used during military and economic cooperation in the CSTO format.
It was decided to continue work on coordinating draft decisions of the Organization's statutory bodies on further development of cooperation and integration of enterprises and organizations of the defense-industrial (military-industrial) complexes of the CSTO member States with a view to subsequently submitting them for consideration at the XX ICMEC meeting.
The meeting participants also agreed on the draft Work Plan of the Commission for 2023.
