On 20 April 2026, a meeting of the Council of the CSTO Parliamentary Assembly was held in Moscow under the chairmanship of the Russian side. During the meeting, CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov delivered a report entitled “On the progress in implementing the decisions of the November (2025) session of the CSTO Collective Security Council and measures taken to counter challenges and threats to collective security.”
On 17 April 2026, a working meeting was held at the CSTO Secretariat between Acting CSTO Deputy Secretary General Samat Ordabaev and the UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Central Asia, Head of the United Nations Regional Centre for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia (UNRCCA), Kaha Imnadze.
On 17 April 2026, the 17th meeting of the Working Group under the CSTO Committee of Secretaries of Security Councils on information security was held in Moscow, with the participation of delegations of representatives of national coordinating and competent authorities on information security, as well as experts and specialists from relevant national structures and agencies of the Organization’s member states.
On 16 April 2026, the 21st meeting of the Council of the CSTO Consultative Coordination Center for Computer Incident Response (CCC CSTO) was held in Moscow, with the participation of delegations of representatives of national competent authorities for computer incident response of the Organization’s member states, as well as a delegation of the CSTO Secretariat headed by Umarzoda Umar Safar, Head of the Countering Challenges and Threats Department of the CSTO Secretariat.
On 17 April, the annual training courses for representatives of the CSTO member states who do not have the status of military personnel were completed at the CSTO Secretariat.
The XXIII meeting of the CSTO Interstate Commission on Military-Economic Cooperation was held in Astana
10.11.2025
The XXIII meeting of the CSTO Interstate Commission on Military-Economic Cooperation was held in Astana (the Republic of Kazakhstan) under the chairmanship of Denis Manturov, Chairman of the CSTO Interstate Commission on Military-Economic Cooperation and First Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation.
The results of the activities of the Commission on the implementation of the decisions of the 22nd session of the ICMEC, held in September last year in Bishkek (the Kyrgyz Republic), were discussed.
Along with this, the meeting Agenda included discussions on further development of military-economic cooperation within the CSTO framework. These included organizing training for personnel at enterprises and organizations in the defense-industrial (military-industrial) complexes of the CSTO member states, the creation of an intergovernmental system for cataloguing items supplied to the armed forces, and ensuring mutual protection of intellectual property rights obtained and used in the course of military-economic cooperation within the CSTO. The Commission adopted appropriate decisions on all issues considered on the meeting agenda.
The Commission decided to hold the Second CSTO Military-Economic Conference in Minsk (the Republic of Belarus) in 2026, at which it plans to summarize the Commission's work over the past 20 years and set tasks for the near future.
The meeting approved the ICMEC Work Plan for 2026.
It was decided to hold the next, ХХIV meeting of the Commission in September-October 2026 in the Republic of Belarus.