On 23–24 April 2026, a meeting of the Working Group on Military-Economic Cooperation under the Chairman of the CSTO Interstate Commission on Military-Economic Cooperation was held
On 20 April 2026, a meeting of the Council of the CSTO Parliamentary Assembly was held in Moscow under the chairmanship of the Russian side. During the meeting, CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov delivered a report entitled “On the progress in implementing the decisions of the November (2025) session of the CSTO Collective Security Council and measures taken to counter challenges and threats to collective security.”
On 17 April 2026, a working meeting was held at the CSTO Secretariat between Acting CSTO Deputy Secretary General Samat Ordabaev and the UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Central Asia, Head of the United Nations Regional Centre for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia (UNRCCA), Kaha Imnadze.
On 17 April 2026, the 17th meeting of the Working Group under the CSTO Committee of Secretaries of Security Councils on information security was held in Moscow, with the participation of delegations of representatives of national coordinating and competent authorities on information security, as well as experts and specialists from relevant national structures and agencies of the Organization’s member states.
On 16 April 2026, the 21st meeting of the Council of the CSTO Consultative Coordination Center for Computer Incident Response (CCC CSTO) was held in Moscow, with the participation of delegations of representatives of national competent authorities for computer incident response of the Organization’s member states, as well as a delegation of the CSTO Secretariat headed by Umarzoda Umar Safar, Head of the Countering Challenges and Threats Department of the CSTO Secretariat.
The special training "ECHELON-2020" with the forces and means of material and technical support of the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces) will be held at the “Kapustin Yar” training area in the Russian Federation
08.07.2020
The second staff negotiations on the organization and conduct of special training with the forces and means of material and technical support of the troops (Collective forces) of the CSTO “Echelon-2020” were held at the CSTO Crisis Response Center from July 7 to 8 via video-conferencing.
Representatives of the defense departments of the Republic of Armenia, the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Russian Federation and the Republic of Tajikistan took part in the staff negotiations under the general supervision of the First Deputy Chief of the CSTO Joint Staff Lieutenant General Hassan Kaloev.
The parties reviewed and discussed the volume, essentials of the stages and areas of the joint training, as well as the organization of comprehensive support. The preliminary membership of the executive group of the training, operational groups and the involved national contingents of the CSTO member states were agreed.
The supervision over training process is assigned to the Deputy Commander of the troops of the Southern Military District of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation for the Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics.
A special training with the forces and means of material and technical support “Echelon-2020” is planned in order to practice the tasks of ensuring the actions of the CSTO Collective Rapid Reaction Forces. Subsequently, the military contingents, the formation of special forces and means of the CRRF CSTO will work out the issues of preparing and conducting a joint operation to localize the border armed conflict.
The organization and implementation measures are carried out in accordance with the Regulation on the procedure for the preparation and conduct of joint trainings in the CSTO format, approved by the Decision of the CSTO Collective Security Council of November 28, 2019.
