On November 4, 2026, a working session entitled “The CSTO in Greater Eurasia: Current Status and Prospects” was held in Minsk as part of the 4th Minsk International Conference on Eurasian Security.
On November 3, 2026, the 4th Minsk International Conference on Eurasian Security was held in Minsk. The event was attended by President of the Republic of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergey Lavrov, CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov, CIS Secretary General Sergey Lebedev, SCO Secretary General Nurlan Yermekbayev, OSCE Secretary General Feridun Sinirlioğlu, representatives of the leadership of the foreign ministries of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Republic of Tajikistan and a number of other states.
On October 30, 2026, the results of the “Channel-Caspian Lighthouse” subregional anti-drug operation were summed up as part of the implementation of the 2026 Plan of Key Activities of the Coordinating Council of Heads of Competent Drug Control Authorities of CSTO Member States (CCHCDCA).
A meeting of the CSTO Defense Ministers Council Working Group on the Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics of the CSTO Collective Forces was held
24.11.2021
On November 23, this year, a meeting of the CSTO Defense Ministers Council Working Group on the Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics of the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces) was held via videoconferencing.
The meeting was attended by representatives of the Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics management bodies of the defense departments of the CSTO member States and Colonel General Anatoly Sidorov, Chief of the CSTO Joint Staff.
In the course of the meeting the issues of internal approval of the draft Provisions on material reserves to support the formations of the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces), maintenance and updating of material reserves in the CSTO member States for the formations of the Central Asian region Collective Rapid Deployment Forces (CAR CRDF) and the CSTO Collective Rapid Reaction Forces (CSTO CRRF), as well as the procedure for transportation of personnel, weapons and military equipment of the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces) from one CSTO member State to another in an attack on the sovereignty and territorial integrity of a CSTO member State were considered.
The results of a special training with the assets of the Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics of the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces) "Echelon-2021", as well as the organization issues of training "Echelon-2022", planned in 2022 in the Republic of Kazakhstan have been discussed.
Particular attention was paid to the report by Colonel Dayyrkul uulu Aibek, head of the Main Logistics Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of the Kyrgyz Republic, on efforts to improve the nutrition of military personnel when performing tasks in high altitude conditions. The Defense Ministry of the Kyrgyz Republic tested a new version of a special dry ration, which included national kinds of marching food. It was decided to continue working on this topic as part of the research work "Coalition-MTO-22," which will open in 2022 at the Army General A.V. Khrulev Military Academy of Material and Technical Support in order to improve the system of Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics for the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces).
A regular meeting of the CSTO Defense Ministers Council Working Group on the Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics of the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces) is scheduled to take place in the Republic of Kazakhstan during a special training "Echelon-2022”.
