CSTO Deputy Secretary General Valery Semerikov held a meeting at the Organization’s Secretariat with a delegation of the Monitoring Team of the UN Security Council Sanctions Committees 1267/1989/2253 concerning ISIL and Al-Qaeda and 1988 concerning the Taliban Movement United Nations Security Council.
A working meeting was held between the CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov and Head of the Center for Scientific and Analytical Information of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Political Sciences Nikolay Plotnikov.
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.
The CSTO CSC session was held in Astana
28.11.2024
On November 28, 2024, in Astana, a session of the CSTO Collective Security Council was held under the chairmanship of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev. The session was attended by the heads of the member states, the Secretary General of the Organization Imangali Tasmagambetov and Chief of the Joint Staff, Colonel General, Andrei Serdyukov.
The meeting participants have exchanged detailed views on the politico-military situation in the CSTO area of responsibility, discussed the results of cooperation and prospects for the further development of the collective security system. The results of the discussion are reflected in the Declaration of the Collective Security Council adopted during the session.
In order to further develop the collective security system, the heads of CSTO member states adopted a number of decisions aimed at further strengthening allied ties, enhancing foreign policy coordination and equipping the Organization's Collective Forces. Pursuant to an earlier decision of the CSTO CSC “On providing assistance to the Republic of Tajikistan to strengthen the Tajik-Afghan border”, the CSTO Special Interstate Policy for strengthening sections of the Tajik-Afghan Border was approved, the implementation of which is envisaged for 2025-2030.
Special attention was paid to the preparation for the joint celebration of the 80th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945.
The activities of the Kazakh side during its chairmanship in the CSTO were highly appreciated. It was decided to transfer the chairmanship from the Republic of Kazakhstan to the Kyrgyz Republic from January 1, 2025, in connection with which the President of Kyrgyzstan Sadyr Japarov presented the priorities for the period of the Kyrgyz Republic's chairmanship in the Organization.
The next session of the CSTO CSC will be held in the fourth quarter of 2025 in Bishkek.
