On 5 March 2026, a working meeting was held at the Secretariat of the Collective Security Treaty Organization between CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov and Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Belarus to the Russian Federation Yuri Seliverstov.
On 4 March, Secretary of the Security Council of the Kyrgyz Republic Adilet Orozbekov presented certificates of advanced training in the field of “Information Security of Automated Systems” to civil servants.
The Protocol amending the Agreement on Cooperation of the CSTO Member States in the Field of Transportation of Military and Other Formations, Their Movable Property, as well as Military Products, and the Protocol amending the Agreement on the Status of Formations of Forces and Means of the CSTO Collective Security System, signed during the session of the CSTO Collective Security Council in Astana on 28 November 2024, have entered into force.
The CSTO Secretariat has received with deep concern reports of the launch of massive strikes by the United States and Israel against the territory of Iran, accompanied, inter alia, by civilian casualties.
The CSTO Secretariat is closely monitoring developments on the Afghanistan–Pakistan border. The Organization is interested in peace and stability in the region and proceeds from the understanding that the only viable solution is a political and diplomatic settlement of the conflict.
The Republic of Kazakhstan will host a special training of the Collective Rapid Reaction Forces of the CSTO under the code name "Cobalt-2025"
25.09.2025
From September 29 to October 3, this year, in the territory of the Republic of Kazakhstan in the Almaty region, in accordance with the Plan of joint training of forces and means of the CSTO collective security system for 2025, a special training will be held with special forces of the internal affairs bodies, national security, internal troops (National Guard), special and anti-drug services, as well as emergency rescue and firefighting structures that are part of the special forces formations of the Collective Rapid Reaction Forces (CRRF FSSN), under the code name "Cobalt-2025".
Before the start of the training, a command and staff training session will be held with the operational staff of the Operational Headquarters of the CSTO CRRF FSSN on planning and conducting a special operation, as well as competitions in military-applied sports.
During the active phase of the training, combined special forces groups of the competent authorities of the Organization's member states will solve training and applied operational combat tasks in conditions as close to combat as possible.
In the process of working out the training tasks of the special operation, special forces from the CSTO member states will work out issues of interaction in neutralizing gangs and terrorist groups, suppressing the activities of drug producers and blocking drug trafficking channels, as well as eliminating the consequences of emergencies resulting from hostilities and terrorist acts.
Valery Anatolyevich Semerikov, the CSTO Deputy Secretary General, will take part in the active phase of the training and summarize its results.
Representatives of the relevant CIS and SCO structures have been invited to observe the training.
