On 3-5 June, the Republic of Belarus hosted the second staff talks on the organization and conduct of the joint trainings with the CSTO Collective Rapid Reaction Forces (CRRF) “Interaction-2025”, special trainings with intelligence forces and means “Search-2025” and logistics “Echelon-2025” conducted as part of the joint operational-strategic training “Combat Brotherhood-2025”.
The CSTO Secretary General I.N. Tasmagambetov met with Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People's Republic of China to the Russian Federation Zhang Hanhui
On 27-30 May, in the city of St. Petersburg, on the basis of the Mikhailovsky Military Artillery Academy, a training and methodological meeting was held with the heads of the CSTO basic training and research organizations to coordinate joint training of military personnel and scientific work.
On 28 May 2025 in Bishkek, Chairman of the CSTO Collective Security Council, President of the Kyrgyz Republic Sadyr Japarov received the participants of the meeting of the Council of Defense Ministers of the Organization, held with the participation of CSTO Secretary General Imangali Tasmagambetov and Chief of the CSTO Joint Staff Colonel General Andrei Serdyukov.
On May 28, 2025, a regular meeting of the CSTO Council of Defense Ministers was held in Bishkek under the chairmanship of the Kyrgyz side. The event was attended by Secretary General Imangali Tasmagambetov and Colonel General Andrei Serdyukov, Chief of the Organization's Joint Staff.
The 14th meeting of the CSTO Military Committee was held in Moscow. Chiefs of General Staffs discussed challenges and threats to military security in the Central Asian region
21.06.2019
On June 21, 2019, the 14th meeting of the Military Committee on the development of military cooperation of the states members of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) was held in Moscow.
The meeting was attended by the Chiefs of the General Staffs of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Armenia, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Russian Federation, the Republic of Tajikistan, the First Deputy Chiefs of the General Staffs of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus and the Kyrgyz Republic, the Chief of the CSTO Joint Staff, Colonel-General Anatoly Sidorov. The CSTO Acting Secretary General Valery Semerikov participated in the meeting of the CSTO Military Committee.
During the meeting, the priorities of the CSTO activities in the military sphere, proposed by the Kyrgyz Republic during the CSTO chairmanship, challenges and threats to military security in the Central Asian region, as well as the procedure for conducting joint operational and combat training in 2019 were discussed.
The participants of the event addressed the issues of improving the composition of the CSTO Collective Rapid Reaction Forces and the Collective Rapid Deployment Forces of the Central Asian Collective Security Region.
The meeting considered the procedure for the participation of servicemen of the Armed Forces of the Organization's member states in a military parade on May 9, 2020 in Moscow, dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War. The Chief of the CSTO Joint Staff, Colonel-General Anatoly Sidorov, speaking on this issue, noted that the preparation of the contingent is planned to be held in three stages. The final stage will be held on the basis of the Alabinsky garrison and Red Square in the form of joint training in the spring of 2020.
Members of the Military Committee were also informed about the activities of the Military Academy of Army air defense of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation named after Marshal of the Soviet Union A.Vasilevsky as a basic educational and methodical and research organization of the CSTO. As a result, a number of agreements were reached aimed at strengthening the collective security of the CSTO member states.
