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.
On June 19, 2025, in Bosteri, Issyk-Kul region of the Kyrgyz Republic, the XIX meeting of the Council of the Advisory Coordination Center of the Collective Security Treaty Organization on Computer Incident Response (CSTO CCC) was held, which was attended by delegations of representatives of national authorized bodies for responding to computer incidents of the CSTO member states.
The Kyrgyz Republic has discussed details of joint CSTO trainings
14.06.2024
From 12 to 14 June, in the Kyrgyz Republic, the second staff talks were held on the organization and conduct of a command-staff training with the CSTO Collective Rapid Reaction Forces (CRRF) "Interaction-2024", special trainings with intelligence forces and means "Search-2024" and with CSTO Troops (Collective Forces) logistics forces and means "Echelon-2024".
Representatives of the interested ministries and departments of the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Russian Federation, the Republic of Tajikistan, the Organization's Secretariat and a group of officers from the CSTO Joint Staff headed by Colonel Azamat Dyushembekov took part in the staff talks under the general guidance of Colonel Artur Temirov, the First Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Kyrgyz Republic.
In the course of staff talks, the plan of the trainings, issues of the organization of leadership, the composition of the national contingents' management bodies and units to be trained, the procedure for practical exercises and the organization of comprehensive support were clarified and agreed upon.
Reconnaissance of the area of the trainings planned for the fall of this year has been carried out: it will be the territory of the training center of the Armed Forces of the Kyrgyz Republic "Edelweiss".
The CSTO Collective Rapid Reaction Forces are designed to respond promptly to challenges and threats to the security of the CSTO member states. The CSTO Collective Rapid Reaction Forces comprise mobile formations and military units of permanent readiness of the armed forces of the CSTO member states, fully manned, equipped with modern and compatible weapons and military (special) equipment, as well as formations of special-purpose forces from among the special units of the internal affairs (police), security and special services bodies and authorized bodies in the field of prevention and elimination of the consequences of emergency situations. The total number of personnel is more than 30,000.
