On May 15, 2026, a meeting of the CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov with media representatives of the CSTO member states was held at the CSTO Secretariat to mark the 34th anniversary of the signing of the Collective Security Treaty.
CSTO Deputy Secretary General Valery Semerikov held a meeting at the Organization’s Secretariat with a delegation of the Monitoring Team of the UN Security Council Sanctions Committees 1267/1989/2253 concerning ISIL and Al-Qaeda and 1988 concerning the Taliban Movement United Nations Security Council.
A working meeting was held between the CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov and Head of the Center for Scientific and Analytical Information of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Political Sciences Nikolay Plotnikov.
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.
The CSTO joint training "Cobalt-2022" started in the Kyrgyz Republic, at the "Edelweiss" training range
03.08.2022On August 3, 2022 in the Kyrgyz Republic, at the “Edelweiss” training range in Balykchy, the opening ceremony of the tactical and special training "Cobalt-2022" with the special forces formations included in the CSTO Collective Rapid Reaction Forces (CRRF) took place.
The CSTO Deputy Secretary General Valery Semerikov made welcoming remarks at the event. Major General Oktyabr Urmambetov, the Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of the Kyrgyz Republic, noted that the purpose of the training was to prevent criminal activity in the member States, as well as close cooperation of the security agencies of the CSTO countries.
During the training, combined groups of special forces of the member states will perform training and applied operational and combat tasks of searching, blocking and neutralizing of gangs, terrorist groups, as well as closing drug smuggling channels and detection of caches, laboratories for the storage and production of drugs and their destruction.
The training plan calls for a command and staff training with the Operational Staff of the CSTO Collective Rapid Deployment Forces formations of special forces on planning a special operation and organizing interaction and management of dissimilar forces and equipment. At the end of the training, there will be shooting competitions using various types of weapons as well as sports competitions in soccer and volleyball among the teams of the training participants. The training will continue until 5 August, 2022.
