On July 4, 2025, a delegation of the CSTO Secretariat visited the Central Military-Patriotic Park of Culture and Recreation of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation "Patriot".
The Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov received the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the CSTO member states and the Secretary General of the Organization in Cholpon-Ata on June 30. The meeting was attended by the Foreign Ministers of Kyrgyzstan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Russia and Tajikistan.
On June 30, 2025, a regular meeting of the CSTO Council of Foreign Ministers was held in Cholpon-Ata (the Kyrgyz Republic) under the chairmanship of the Kyrgyz side, which was attended by the Organization's Secretary General Imangali Tasmagambetov.
Safar Umarzoda, Head of the Department for Countering Challenges and Threats of the CSTO Secretariat, took part in a special event (side-event) on "Countering Radicalization leading to terrorism and Extremism" organized by the Russian Federation on the margins of the OSCE Annual Conference on Security Review, where he reported on the measures taken by the CSTO on countering terrorism and extremism, and willingness to share the experience gained.
On June 19, 2025, in Bosteri, Issyk-Kul region of the Kyrgyz Republic, the XIX meeting of the Council of the Advisory Coordination Center of the Collective Security Treaty Organization on Computer Incident Response (CSTO CCC) was held, which was attended by delegations of representatives of national authorized bodies for responding to computer incidents of the CSTO member states.
A regular Coordination Meeting of Chief Narcologists of the CSTO member states was held in Astana
02.08.2024
On August 1, 2024, within the framework of the presidency of the Republic of Kazakhstan in the CSTO, a regular Coordination Meeting of Chief Narcologists of the Organization's member states was held in Astana.
The meeting participants have discussed current trends in the development of the drug situation in the CSTO area of responsibility and its individual member states, and exchanged statistical information on the prevalence of drug-related morbidity and mortality.
They learned about national approaches in CSTO member states to the organization of prevention - primary, secondary and tertiary prevention, as well as medication support for remission in opioid dependence.
They made sure that preventive activities required from doctors providing drug treatment to the population a broad interdepartmental cooperation with law enforcement agencies, education, and international organizations.
They have discussed cooperation between drug treatment facilities and educational organizations in order to identify and prevent the social and psychological disadvantage that can result from the use of drugs by children and adolescents.
The meeting participants were informed about the adoption of the CSTO model law “On Prevention of Non-Medical Drug Use”, discussed proposals for its implementation and expressed readiness to implement its provisions in their activities.
They stated that all the CSTO member states had implemented the provisions of international and national legislation on countering and preventing illicit drug use.
The event participants also visited the Mental Health Center of Astana (rehabilitation and drug treatment units), familiarized with the structure and activities of the Republican Scientific and Practical Center for Mental Health of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Kazakhstan and its branch in Pavlodar.
The meeting participants highly appreciated the level of organization of drug treatment in the Republic of Kazakhstan, its comprehensive nature and preventive orientation, as well as the high level of interaction between psychiatrists, narcologists and other organizations and agencies for the purpose of public health and prevention of non-medical drug use.
