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.”
The CSTO member states held consultations in Moscow on topical issues of arms control, disarmament and non-proliferation
21.05.2025
On 21 May 2025, the CSTO member states held consultations by videoconferencing using the communications channels of the CSTO Crisis Response Centre under the chairmanship of the Russian Federation on the theme “On topical issues of arms control, disarmament and non-proliferation” (CADN), in which delegations of the CSTO member states, the CSTO Acting Deputy Secretary General Samat Ordabaev and members of the CSTO Secretariat took part.
There was a thorough discussion of topical issues and prospects for the development of the situation in the field of CADN. The participants compared approaches to specific aspects of compliance with and strengthening of existing international treaties and agreements in this area.
In discussing selected topical issues, the importance of cooperation and active joint steps to counter attempts to use outer space as a “battleground” was emphasized, as well as the need to maintain human control over weapons systems using artificial intelligence.
Interest was confirmed to continue regular reconciliation of positions on the issues of the CADN in order to coordinate actions at specialized international platforms.
