On July 4, 2025, a delegation of the CSTO Secretariat visited the Central Military-Patriotic Park of Culture and Recreation of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation "Patriot".
The Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov received the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the CSTO member states and the Secretary General of the Organization in Cholpon-Ata on June 30. The meeting was attended by the Foreign Ministers of Kyrgyzstan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Russia and Tajikistan.
On June 30, 2025, a regular meeting of the CSTO Council of Foreign Ministers was held in Cholpon-Ata (the Kyrgyz Republic) under the chairmanship of the Kyrgyz side, which was attended by the Organization's Secretary General Imangali Tasmagambetov.
Safar Umarzoda, Head of the Department for Countering Challenges and Threats of the CSTO Secretariat, took part in a special event (side-event) on "Countering Radicalization leading to terrorism and Extremism" organized by the Russian Federation on the margins of the OSCE Annual Conference on Security Review, where he reported on the measures taken by the CSTO on countering terrorism and extremism, and willingness to share the experience gained.
The CSTO Secretary General Stanislav Zas and Armenian Defense Minister David Tonoyan met in Yerevan
27.02.2020
On February 27, 2020, the CSTO Secretary General Stanislav Zas, who is in Armenia on a working visit, met with Minister of Defense of the Republic of Armenia David Tonoyan.
The Minister congratulated Mr. Zas on his appointment as Secretary General of the Organization. During the meeting the parties discussed issues of regional and international security, as well as the further development of the military component of the CSTO.
Particular attention was paid to the development of the CSTO crisis response system, increasing the potential of the Collective Rapid Reaction Forces and the CSTO Peacekeeping Forces, improving the system of representatives of the Armed Forces of the Organization, measures for joint combat training, as well as the implementation of joint events dedicated to the 75th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War.
