A working meeting between CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov and Director of the Institute of China and Contemporary Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences Kirill Babaev was held at the Secretariat of the Collective Security Treaty Organization.
From June 2 to 4, the Republic of Belarus hosted the second staff talks on the organization and conduct of the CSTO Peacekeeping Forces command-and-staff exercise “Indestructible Brotherhood 2026” and the special exercise “Barrier 2026” involving the CSTO Joint CBRN Protection and Medical Support Formation.
On June 3, 2026, a regular meeting of the CSTO Council of Defense Ministers (CDM) was held at the Patriot Central Park of the Russian Ministry of Defense under the chairmanship of the Russian side. The meeting was attended by CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov and Chief of the CSTO Joint Staff Andrey Serdyukov.
From June 1 to 3, Saratov (Russian Federation) is hosting a series of events involving the member states of the Collective Security Treaty Organization aimed at strengthening the collective response system to biological threats.
On June 1, 2026, consultations at the deputy foreign minister level of the CSTO member states were held in Moscow.
Dushanbe will host the XXI meeting of the CSTO Interstate Commission for Military-Economic Cooperation
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A meeting of the Interstate Commission on Military-Economic Cooperation of the Collective Security Treaty Organization will be held in the capital of the Republic of Tajikistan, Dushanbe, on April 27, 2023. The event will be chaired by Denis Manturov, the Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation - Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation, Chairman of the CSTO Interstate Commission on Military-Economic Cooperation.
Imangali Tasmagambetov, the Secretary General of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, will take part in the ICMEC meeting.
The draft Agenda provides for consideration of the implementation of the decisions of the XX meeting of the ICMEC held in October 2022 in Moscow, as well as the results of implementation of the decisions of the statutory bodies of the Organization.
In particular, it is planned to discuss the content of further measures on standardization of weapons and military equipment within the CSTO and the development of multilateral cooperation between enterprises and organizations of the defense industry (military-industrial) complexes of the Organization's member states.
On the eve of the beginning of the ICMEC work the meetings of the Coordinating Council for Standardization of Armaments and Military Equipment under the CSTO ICMEC, as well as the meetings of the Coordinating Council under the CSTO ICMEC on issues of mutual protection of rights to the results of intellectual activity, obtained and used during the military and economic cooperation within the CSTO to review and coordinate documents in this part of the work, will be held.
The CSTO Interstate Commission on Military-Economic Cooperation was established by the decision of the CSTO Collective Security Council of June 23, 2005.
The Commission's tasks include formulating recommendations and adopting decisions within its competence to ensure multilateral military-economic (technical) cooperation in priority areas of cooperation within the CSTO format. These include the development and implementation of long-term programs for military-economic cooperation; development of cooperation in the production of military products; creation of joint ventures for the development, production, modernization, repair and disposal of military products; and joint research and development work on the development and modernization of military products, among others.
