From October 13 to 16, 2025, the 23rd International Combat Sambo Tournament for the Cup of the Secretary General of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, featuring law enforcement personnel from CSTO member states, was held at the Ognikovo Park Hotel (19 Ognikovo, Istra District, Moscow Region).
Today, the final stages of the command-and-staff exercise with the CSTO Peacekeeping Forces “Indestructible Brotherhood-2026” and the special exercise with the CSTO joint NBC protection and medical support formation “Barrier-2026” took place at the Losvido and Starodorozhsky training ranges in the Republic of Belarus.
On October 15–16, a CSTO, CIS and SCO conference on security issues in Central Asia and Afghanistan was held in Moscow as part of Russia’s CSTO chairmanship programme.
At the Losvido training range in the Republic of Belarus, peacekeeping units repelled a simulated enemy attack on a humanitarian convoy during the command-and-staff exercise with the CSTO Peacekeeping Forces “Indestructible Brotherhood-2026”.
These days, the 23rd International Combat Sambo Tournament for the Cup of the Secretary General of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, featuring law enforcement personnel from CSTO member states, is being held at the Ognikovo Park Hotel (19 Ognikovo, Istra District, Moscow Region).
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.
