Dear Sergey Kuzhugetovich!
Dear Secretaries of the Security Councils!
On behalf of the Secretariat of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, I welcome the organizers and participants of the thirteenth meeting of the secretaries of the security councils of the member states of the Commonwealth of Independent States.
On October 31, 2025, in Astana, the CSTO Secretary General Imangali Tasmagambetov met with the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev.
During his visit to the Republic of Tajikistan, the Secretary General of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) Imangali Tasmagambetov was received by the President of the Republic of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon.
On October 29, 2025, a working session on “Prospects for collective security in Eurasia: The CSTO area of responsibility as a space for dialogue” was held in the Belarusian capital as part of the III Minsk International Conference on Eurasian Security. It was attended by representatives of expert communities from the CSTO member states, Uzbekistan, India, Vietnam, and a number of other countries.
A regular meeting of the CSTO Council of Defense Ministers was held in Bishkek
28.05.2025
On May 28, 2025, a regular meeting of the CSTO Council of Defense Ministers was held in Bishkek under the chairmanship of the Kyrgyz side. The event was attended by Secretary General Imangali Tasmagambetov and Colonel General Andrei Serdyukov, Chief of the Organization's Joint Staff.
The sides have discussed in detail the military and political situation in the CSTO area of responsibility and exchanged views on further development of the collective security system.
During the meeting, a number of documents were considered and approved concerning the planning of military cooperation between the CSTO member states for 2026-2030, the organization of joint training for the CSTO's command and control bodies and formations of the forces and means of the collective security system, the improvement of issues related to the management of the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces) and a number of others.
The meeting participants noted the high level of organization of the parade dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War, which was held on 9 May 2025 on Red Square in Moscow and in which military units of the CSTO member states took part.
