On June 10, 2026, a regular meeting of the CSTO Council of Foreign Ministers was held in Kazan (Russian Federation) under the chairmanship of the Russian side, with the participation of CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov. CIS Deputy Secretary General Denis Trefilov and SCO Deputy Secretary General Oleg Kopylov were also invited to attend the meeting.
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.
Meeting of the Working Group on Afghanistan under the CSTO Ministerial Council was held
03.02.2021
On February 2, 2021, a regular meeting of the Working Group on Afghanistan under the CSTO Ministerial Council was held via videoconferencing, The national coordinators of the CSTO member states for Afghanistan, the Deputy Secretary General of the CSTO Takhir Khayrulloyev and the representative of the Afghan Embassy in Moscow took part in the meeting.
The meeting discussed issues related to the military-political situation in Afghanistan. They considered the risks coming from the territory of Afghanistan for the neighboring states of Central Asia and methods of countering the challenges and threats emanating from there.
The results of the Group's work for the second half of 2020 were summed up and the Working Plan of the CSTO Ministerial Council for the first half of 2021 was adopted.
