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.
On May 6, 2026, a meeting was held at the CSTO Secretariat between the CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykovand newly appointed Permanent and Plenipotentiary Representative of the Republic of Belarus to the CSTO Vladimir Bespaly.
28 April marks the Day of the CSTO Joint Staff. It should be recalled that on 28 April 2003, in Dushanbe, the Collective Security Council, guided by the need to establish a military staff body responsible for implementing the military component of the Collective Security Treaty, adopted the Decision “On the Establishment of the Joint Staff of the Collective Security Treaty Organization.”
Special training “Search-2024”: reconnaissance teams are withdrawn to the areas of task fulfillment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.
