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.”
In Minsk, a working session was held on the topic: “Prospects for collective security in Eurasia: the CSTO area of responsibility as a space for dialogue”
29.10.2025
On October 29, 2025, a working session on “Prospects for collective security in Eurasia: The CSTO area of responsibility as a space for dialogue” was held in the Belarusian capital as part of the III Minsk International Conference on Eurasian Security. It was attended by representatives of expert communities from the CSTO member states, Uzbekistan, India, Vietnam, and a number of other countries.
The meeting was moderated by Yuri Shuvalov, Head of the Information and Public Relations Department of the CSTO Secretariat.
Igor Sekret, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Belarus, and Taalatbek Masadykov, Deputy Secretary General of the CSTO, addressed the participants with opening remarks.
An exchange of views took place on a wide range of issues related to ensuring regional security.
Particular attention was paid to the prospects for implementing the ideas of the Eurasian Charter of diversity and multipolarity in the 21st century. Representatives of expert communities recognized the significant potential of this draft document as an initiative capable of coordinating constructive interaction between countries in the region in the interests of security and development in Greater Eurasia.
The participants in the discussion noted the important role of the Issyk-Kul Initiative, adopted in June this year as part of an expert dialogue organized at the initiative of the CSTO Secretariat, in terms of establishing the ideological basis and format of the expert community.
Representatives of the CSTO Secretariat reported on work being done on a Conceptual Report entitled “The Great Eurasian Partnership: Shared Responsibility for a Secure Future,” which is scheduled for release in November of this year.
