On October 30, 2024, the CSTO Secretary General Imangali Tasmagambetov met with Belarusian Foreign Minister Maxim Ryzhenkov in Minsk. The CSTO Secretary General arrived in Minsk to participate in the II Minsk International Conference on Eurasian Security.
The subregional anti-drug operation “Kanal-Avangard” was carried out in the territory of CSTO member states in order to suppress the flow of drugs, their precursors and analogues and new psychoactive and potent substances into the CSTO region of responsibility, to neutralize international transnational drug groups and to eliminate clandestine drug production and undermine the economic foundations of the drug business, including the legalization of drug profits.
Participants of the joint training “Rubezh-2024” are heading to the Republic of Tajikistan
11.10.2024
From 11 to 14 October, formations participating in the joint training “Rubezh-2024” with the Collective Rapid Deployment Forces of the Central Asian Region are regrouping in the Republic of Tajikistan.
Contingents of CSTO troops (Collective Forces) are being sent from the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic and the Russian Federation to the training area in accordance with the plan.
One of the priorities for military cooperation identified by Kazakhstan, which is chairing the CSTO this year, is to improve issues related to ensuring the operational deployment of the troops (Collective Forces), including the unimpeded transit of contingents.
In Tajikistan, a joint training with the Collective Rapid Deployment Forces of the Central Asian region “Rubezh-2024” is being held at the “Harbmaydon” training range, during which the issues of preparation and conduct of combat operations to destroy illegal armed groups that have invaded the territory of a CSTO member state will be practiced.
Particular attention will be paid to the issues of organization of air defense cover for the units of the Collective Rapid Deployment Forces of the Central Asian Region at the stage of regrouping, operational deployment, as well as interaction of the Command with the air defense forces and assets of the Air Force and Air Defense of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Tajikistan and the 201st military base of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in the preparation and conduct of combat operations.
Formed in 2001 on the basis of the decision of the CSTO Collective Security Council, the Collective Rapid Deployment Forces of the Central Asian Region comprises units and subunits of the armed forces on permanent readiness, equipped with modern weapon systems and military equipment.
The main tasks of the Collective Forces are to participate in repelling external military aggression and conducting joint counter-terrorist operations.
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