In Kazakhstan, a joint command-staff training with the CSTO Collective Peacekeeping Forces (CPF) began practicing combat training tasks at checkpoints, roadblocks and refugee reception points, escorting convoys and cargoes, and providing humanitarian assistance. On the eve of the training, Major General Almaz Dzhumakeyev, head of the training, presented the commander of the CPF with a mandate to prepare and conduct a peacekeeping operation.
Today, in the Republic of Kazakhstan, at the training range “Bereg”, the opening ceremony of the active phase of the command-staff training with the Peacekeeping Forces of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) “Indestructible Brotherhood-2024” was held.
On September 30, 2024, in Almaty, under the chairmanship of the First Vice-Minister of Health of the Republic of Kazakhstan T.S. Sultangaziev, the IV meeting of the Coordination Council of authorized bodies of the CSTO member states on biological security issues was held.
According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan, on September 26, 2024, under the chairmanship of the Deputy Prime Minister - Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan Murat Nurtleu, a working meeting of foreign ministers of the member states of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) was held. This meeting occurs annually on the margins of the UN General Assembly.
On 25-26 September 2024, the IV International Conference on the Spread of Extremist Ideology, organized by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, was held in Moscow.
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.
