A meeting of the Working Group of the Coordination Council of Heads of Competent Authorities on Combating Illicit Drug Trafficking (CCHN) on organizing international anti-drug operations within the CSTO framework was held in Aktau, Republic of Kazakhstan.
The Open International Youth Sambo Festival of National Teams of the CSTO Member States was held at the International Sambo Center in Moscow.
On August 17–19, at the invitation of Colonel General Alexander Manilov, Chairman of the Coordination Service of the Council of Border Troops Commanders of the CIS, a delegation of the CSTO Joint Staff headed by Colonel General Andrey Serdyukov took part in international events held in the area of responsibility of the Border Directorate of the Russian Federal Security Service for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region.
On August 14, consultations were held via videoconference at the CSTO Joint Staff with representatives of relevant ministries and agencies of the CSTO member states on organizing joint training activities for command and control bodies and formations of the CSTO collective security system in 2027.
The Chief of the CSTO Joint Staff and the Minister of Defense of the Republic of Armenia had a meeting in Yerevan
30.03.2022On March 30, this year, Colonel General Anatoli Sidorov, the Chief of the CSTO Joint Staff, who is in Yerevan in the framework of his working visit to the Armenian capital, and the Defense Minister Suren Papikyan had a working meeting in Yerevan.
In the course of the meeting, they discussed the trends and prospects for the development of the military component of the Collective Security Treaty Organization.
The Chief of the CSTO Joint Staff presented a draft Action Plan aimed at improving crisis response for approval to the Head of the Defense Ministry of the Republic of Armenia, this year's CSTO Chairmanship. The document was agreed upon during the consultations of the defense ministries of the Republic of Armenia, the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Russian Federation and the Republic of Tajikistan on March 24.
Chairman of the CSTO Defense Ministerial Council - Defense Minister of the Republic of Armenia Suren Papikyan approved the Plan, which will be sent to the member States of the Organization in accordance with the established procedure.
The CSTO Chief of the Joint Staff and the Armenian Minister of Defense also discussed the coordination of practical implementation of CSTO decisions in the sphere of military cooperation.
