On May 7, the CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov held a working meeting in Moscow at the CSTO Joint Staff aimed at improving issues related to crisis response and expert cooperation.
On May 6, 2026, a meeting was held at the CSTO Secretariat between the CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykovand newly appointed Permanent and Plenipotentiary Representative of the Republic of Belarus to the CSTO Vladimir Bespaly.
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.”
Consultations of the CSTO member states on cooperation in arms control, disarmament and non-proliferation issues took place in Moscow
02.04.2019
On April 2, 2019, in Moscow, under the chairmanship of the head of the CSTO Secretariat political cooperation department Ara Badalyan, consultations of the CSTO member states delegations “On Cooperation in Arms Control, Disarmament and Non-Proliferation” with the participation of the CSTO Secretariat representatives were held.
A thorough exchange of views took place on urgent issues and prospects for the further development of the situation in the mentioned field. The approaches of the CSTO member states on nuclear weapons control and non-proliferation issues, preventing an arms race in the space, strengthening and enhancing the effectiveness of existing regimes prohibiting chemical and biological weapons, implementing existing international legal documents and agreements, as well as on issues of interaction in the politico-military dimension of the OSCE, were verified.
The readiness of the CSTO member states to continue the collective efforts to build an international system of reliable, equal and indivisible security for all, restoring trust and mutual respect in interstate relations was confirmed. 
