From June 2 to 4, the Republic of Belarus hosted the second staff talks on the organization and conduct of the CSTO Peacekeeping Forces command-and-staff exercise “Indestructible Brotherhood 2026” and the special exercise “Barrier 2026” involving the CSTO Joint CBRN Protection and Medical Support Formation.
On June 3, 2026, a regular meeting of the CSTO Council of Defense Ministers (CDM) was held at the Patriot Central Park of the Russian Ministry of Defense under the chairmanship of the Russian side. The meeting was attended by CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov and Chief of the CSTO Joint Staff Andrey Serdyukov.
From June 1 to 3, Saratov (Russian Federation) is hosting a series of events involving the member states of the Collective Security Treaty Organization aimed at strengthening the collective response system to biological threats.
On June 1, 2026, consultations at the deputy foreign minister level of the CSTO member states were held in Moscow.
On May 28, 2026, CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov took part in the International Security Forum held under the auspices of the Security Council of the Russian Federation. More than 150 delegations from 120 countries participated in the event.
A meeting of the CSTO Council of Defense Ministers was held in Almaty
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On May 31, 2024, a meeting of the CSTO Council of Defense Ministers was held in Almaty under the chairmanship of the Kazakh side. The event was attended by the Secretary General of the Organization Imangali Tasmagambetov and the Chief of the Joint Staff, Colonel General Andrei Serdyukov.
The CSTO Secretary General made a report “On challenges and threats to military security in the collective security regions of the Collective Security Treaty Organization”. The meeting participants discussed the military-political situation in the collective security regions and its impact on the security of the member states.
Documents were also reviewed and signed regarding equipping the components of the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces) with modern and promising models of weapons and military equipment, planning joint operational and combat training, improving the methodology for training CSTO peacekeeping contingents, as well as the Targeted Interstate Program of the Collective Security Treaty Organization on strengthening the Tajik-Afghan border and a number of others.
On the same day, in the Park named after the 28 Panfilov Guardsmen, the meeting participants honored the memory of the legendary soldiers of the Great Patriotic War and laid a wreath at the Eternal Flame Memorial.
