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.
Dushanbe will host the XXI meeting of the CSTO Interstate Commission for Military-Economic Cooperation
24.04.2023
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.
