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.”
A meeting of the CSTO Council of Foreign Ministers was held in Almaty
21.06.2024
On June 21, 2024, in Almaty, a meeting of the CSTO Council of Foreign Ministers was held under the chairmanship of the Kazakh side. The CSTO Secretary General Imangali Tasmagambetov made a report on the state of the international and regional situation and its impact on the security of the member states of the Collective Security Treaty Organization.
The meeting participants held a detailed discussion of a wide range of international issues with a focus on the problem of ensuring peace and stability in the CSTO collective security regions.
Based on the results of the meeting, the draft decision of the CSTO Collective Security Council "On the CSTO Special Interstate Policy for strengthening sections of the Tajik-Afghan Border", previously approved by the Council of Defense Ministers and the Committee of Secretaries of the CSTO Security Councils, was agreed upon.
A number of statements were also adopted:
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Statement by the Ministers for Foreign Affairs of the member states of the Collective Security Treaty Organization on topical issues of the exploration and use of outer space for peaceful purposes;
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Statement by the Ministers for Foreign Affairs of the member states of the Collective Security Treaty Organization in connection with the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Belarus from Nazi invaders
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Statement by the Ministers for Foreign Affairs of the member states of the Collective Security Treaty Organization on the situation in the Middle East and North Africa;
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Statement by the Ministers for Foreign Affairs of the member states of the Collective Security Treaty Organization on expanding cooperation in the field of international information security.
