On May 7, the CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov held a working meeting in Moscow at the CSTO Joint Staff aimed at improving issues related to crisis response and expert cooperation.
On May 6, 2026, a meeting was held at the CSTO Secretariat between the CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykovand newly appointed Permanent and Plenipotentiary Representative of the Republic of Belarus to the CSTO Vladimir Bespaly.
28 April marks the Day of the CSTO Joint Staff. It should be recalled that on 28 April 2003, in Dushanbe, the Collective Security Council, guided by the need to establish a military staff body responsible for implementing the military component of the Collective Security Treaty, adopted the Decision “On the Establishment of the Joint Staff of the Collective Security Treaty Organization.”
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.
