28 April marks the Day of the CSTO Joint Staff. It should be recalled that on 28 April 2003, in Dushanbe, the Collective Security Council, guided by the need to establish a military staff body responsible for implementing the military component of the Collective Security Treaty, adopted the Decision “On the Establishment of the Joint Staff of the Collective Security Treaty Organization.”
On 27 April 2026, within the framework of the International Scientific and Practical Conference “Contours of a New Architecture of Collective Security: Current Issues of Information and Analytical Partnership within the CSTO,” held at MGIMO University of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, a round table entitled “Eurasian Analytical Platform: New Approaches in a New Geopolitical Reality” took place. During the event, Head of the Information and Public Relations Department of the CSTO Secretariat Yuriy Shuvalov delivered a presentation on “The Eurasian Analytical Network: A New Cognitive Architecture of Collective Security.”
A regular meeting of the CSTO Council of Foreign Ministers was held in Kyrgyzstan
30.06.2025
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.
The parties have discussed in detail the international and regional situation and its impact on the security of the CSTO member states.
The Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the CSTO member states adopted statements on issues related to international information security, countering radicalization leading to terrorism and extremism, the situation in the Middle East, as well as the establishment of the UN Regional Center for Sustainable Development Goals for Central Asia and Afghanistan.
In addition, issues of further cooperation between the Collective Security Treaty Organization and the Commonwealth of Independent States and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization were discussed.
The Foreign Ministers noted the successful implementation of the Action Plan for the celebration of the 80th anniversary of the Great Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945, adopted by the CSTO Collective Security Council in November 2024.
