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.
On 17 April, the annual training courses for representatives of the CSTO member states who do not have the status of military personnel were completed at the CSTO Secretariat.
Special training “Search-2024”: reconnaissance teams are withdrawn to the areas of task fulfillment
08.09.2024
In the Kyrgyz Republic, at the Edelweiss training range, reconnaissance groups have been deployed to areas where they are to carry out tasks as part of the special training “Search-2024” with reconnaissance forces and means.
Their main purpose is to conduct various types of reconnaissance in the interests of the use of the CSTO Collective Rapid Reaction Forces (CRRF) in localizing an armed conflict.
The reconnaissance officers will have to search for and detect various objects of the conditional enemy and illegal armed groups, as well as adjust the fire of weapons of mass destruction and carry out other special activities.
During the training, the reconnaissance officers are actively using strike drones of various types, thermal imagers and the latest communications equipment.
The theme of the special training “Search-2024” is the organization and conduct of reconnaissance by the forces and means of the intelligence agencies in the course of a joint operation by the CSTO CRRF to resolve an armed conflict.
During the special training “Search-2024”, a joint intelligence control point was set up and the following trainings are being practiced:
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organization of integrated intelligence;
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redirecting intelligence agencies to other intelligence objects;
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fulfillment of intelligence tasks through observation, eavesdropping, search and ambushes;
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return of reconnaissance bodies to the area where their combat effectiveness is restored, etc.
On the territory of the Kyrgyz Republic, under the charge of Colonel Artur Temirov, First Deputy Chief of General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Kyrgyz Republic, a command-staff training with the CSTO Collective Rapid Reaction Forces “Interaction-2024”, a special training with intelligence forces and means “Search-2024”, and a special training with logistical forces and means “Echelon-2024” are being conducted.
Contingents of the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces) of the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Russian Federation and the Republic of Tajikistan are taking part in the trainings. Among them are military contingents, formations of special-purpose forces from among the special units of the internal affairs (police), security and special services bodies, authorized bodies in the field of prevention and elimination of the consequences of emergency situations, as well as operational groups of the CSTO Joint Staff and the CSTO Secretariat. A total of about 1,500 servicemen and up to 300 units of weapons, military and special equipment, including aviation, various types of strike drones, combat boats and air defense equipment, are involved.
