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85 years ago, the Great Patriotic War began. The war machine of Nazi Germany launched a treacherous attack against Soviet cities and villages and committed unprecedented atrocities against Soviet citizens. The peoples of the Soviet Union rose to defend their common Motherland and paid an enormous price for peace, freedom, and the right to live on their own land.
On June 17–18, 2026, CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov visited sections of the State Border of the Republic of Belarus with Poland and Lithuania.
On June 18, 2026, the 24th Meeting of the Interstate Commission for Military-Economic Cooperation of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (ICMEC CSTO) was held in Minsk on the sidelines of the 3rd International Security Industry Exhibition “National Security. Belarus 2026”. The meeting was chaired by Dmitry Stefanovich, Head of the Belarusian National Section of the ICMEC and Deputy Chairman of the State Authority for Military Industry of the Republic of Belarus.
On June 18, 2026, the 2nd Military-Economic Conference of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, entitled “Development of Cooperation among the Defense Industries (Military-Industrial Complexes) of the CSTO Member States: 20 Years of Practical Cooperation”, was held in Minsk on the sidelines of the 3rd International Security Industry Exhibition “National Security. Belarus 2026”. The event brought together representatives of relevant ministries, agencies, defense enterprises, and other institutions and organizations of the CSTO member states.
The XIIth meeting of the Coordination Council for Emergency Situations of the CSTO member states was held in Bishkek
10.10.2019
On October 10, 2019, in Bishkek, at the State Residence of the President of the Kyrgyz Republic, under the chairmanship of the Minister of Emergency Situations Mirzakhmedov Nurbolot Sabirzhanovich, the regular XII meeting of the Coordinating Council for Emergency Situations of the member states of the Collective Security Treaty Organization was held.
The meeting was attended by the Acting Secretary General of the CSTO, Valery Semerikov.
They discussed issues of expanding the CSTO’s cooperation with international organizations in order to use the potential in providing assistance in case of emergencies, the activities of the Coordinating Council for Emergency Situations of the member states of the Collective Security Treaty Organization for 2019, the plan of joint measures for 2020, and also summed up the staff training on working out the interaction of emergency departments in case of emergency situations conducted by videoconference in March this year under the leadership of the Ministry of Emergencies of the Kyrgyz Republic.
In addition, the agenda of the meeting also included the expansion of cooperation and exchange of experience in the field of educating the younger generation of a culture of life safety and giving the status of basic training units of bodies authorized in the field of emergency prevention and response to the CSTO member states of a number of educational institutions of the Ministry of Emergencies Of Russia.
The meeting is attended by heads, members of the CSTO Coordinating Council for Emergency Situations, deputy heads of the emergency departments of the CSTO member states and the CSTO Acting Secretary General Semerikov Valery Anatolyevich, as well as representatives of international and non-governmental organizations.
The Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Kyrgyz Republic actively cooperates in the field of emergency prevention and response within the framework of the Coordinating Council for Emergency Situations of the member states of the Collective Security Treaty Organization.
