The Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov received the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the CSTO member states and the Secretary General of the Organization in Cholpon-Ata on June 30. The meeting was attended by the Foreign Ministers of Kyrgyzstan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Russia and Tajikistan.
On June 30, 2025, a regular meeting of the CSTO Council of Foreign Ministers was held in Cholpon-Ata (the Kyrgyz Republic) under the chairmanship of the Kyrgyz side, which was attended by the Organization's Secretary General Imangali Tasmagambetov.
Safar Umarzoda, Head of the Department for Countering Challenges and Threats of the CSTO Secretariat, took part in a special event (side-event) on "Countering Radicalization leading to terrorism and Extremism" organized by the Russian Federation on the margins of the OSCE Annual Conference on Security Review, where he reported on the measures taken by the CSTO on countering terrorism and extremism, and willingness to share the experience gained.
On June 19, 2025, in Bosteri, Issyk-Kul region of the Kyrgyz Republic, the XIX meeting of the Council of the Advisory Coordination Center of the Collective Security Treaty Organization on Computer Incident Response (CSTO CCC) was held, which was attended by delegations of representatives of national authorized bodies for responding to computer incidents of the CSTO member states.
On June 24-26, the second staff negotiations were held in the Kyrgyz Republic on the organization and conduct an operational meeting with the Command of the Collective Rapid Deployment Forces of the Central Asian Region (CAR CRDF) and a command and staff training with units of the CAR CRDF "Rubezh-2025", conducted as part of the joint operational and strategic training "Combat Brotherhood-2025".
Joint training with the CRRF CSTO "Interaction-2019" will be held on the territory of the Russian Federation from 16 to 18 October
14.10.2019
In accordance with the Plan for joint training of control bodies command, and force and means generation of the CSTO collective security system for 2019, from 16 to 18 October , this year, it is planned to conduct a joint training with the Collective Rapid Response Forces of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CRRF CSTO) "Interaction-2019" on the theme: "Preparation and conduct of a joint operation to localize the border armed conflict in the East European collective security region."
The joint training is held as a part of the operational-strategic training “Combat Brotherhood-2019” with participation of units and subunits of military contingents and special forces from the CRRF CSTO, as well as operational groups of defense establishments and representatives of the border services of the CSTO member states.
At the upcoming "Interaction-2019" training, it is planned to work out the issues of preparing a joint operation and managing contingents of the CRRF CSTO in conducting practical actions to localize the border armed conflict in the East European collective security region. In addition, it is envisaged that military contingents and formations of special forces will train battle tasks in intelligence with the combined use of various ground and air-based means, strengthen state border defense troops, conduct a special operation to block the border section of the CSTO member state, defeat and liquidate illegal armed groups.
The Colonel General Anatoly Sidorov, Chief of the CSTO Joint Staff, the CSTO Deputy Secretary General Piotr Tsikhanouski, representatives of the Secretariat and military men of the CSTO Joint Staff are planning to participate in the training.
Considering past practice of conducting training in the CSTO format for the final stage of the joint training “Interaction-2019” of October 18, this year, representatives of the United Nations, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Serbia, as well as military attachés accredited in the Russian Federation are invited as observers.
Taking into account the open appeal of the CSTO member states Foreign Ministers in May 2019 to the NATO member states Foreign Ministers with a proposal to establish constructive interaction, the Russian Federation (in agreement with the Organization member states) sent appropriate invitations to the international Alliance secretariat and all military attaches of NATO member states.
The training is planned to be held at the 333th training ground of the Combat Training Center of the Western Military District of the RF Armed Forces, Mulino settlement, Nizhny Novgorod Region, under the leadership of Colonel General Alexander Zhuravlev, the military commander of the Western Military District of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.
The opening ceremony of the training will take place on October 16. Prior to the start of the joint training, in order to coordinate the CSTO CRRF Command in conditions of aggravation of the situation in the East European region of collective security and in the preparation of a joint operation to localize the border armed conflict, a command field training is planned.
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