The 23rd meeting of the Military Committee on military cooperation development among the CSTO member states under the supervision of the Chairman of the Military Committee, Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation - First Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, Army General Valery Gerasimov, took place today via videoconferencing.
From April 8 to 11, 2024, the XXI International Seminar-Meeting on Combined Martial Arts with the heads of combat and physical training of the security ministries and agencies of the CSTO member states took place at the Park Hotel "Horizon", Odintsovo District, Moscow Region.
The event was addressed by Gennady Troislit, the Deputy Head of the Organizational and Planning Department of the CSTO Secretariat, and Oleg Ufimtsev, the President of the Russian Federation of Combined Martial Arts.
On 10 April 2024, the 39th meeting of the Working Group on Afghanistan under the CSTO Ministerial Council was held with the participation of the Acting CSTO Deputy Secretary General Samat Ordabaev and the CSTO Deputy Secretary General Taalatbek Masadykov. The event was also attended by delegations of the Organization’s member states, the Secretariat of the CSTO Parliamentary Assembly and representatives of the UN CTO, the UNRCCA, the CIS ATC, the Coordination Service of the CIS Council of Commanders of Border Troops, the SCO RATS and the ICRC.
On 8 April 2024, at the CSTO Secretariat, Imangali Tasmagambetov, the Secretary General of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, held a working meeting with Roza Otunbayeva, the Special Representative of the UN Secretary General for Afghanistan and Head of the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA).
At the CSTO Joint Staff, Colonel General Anatoly Sidorov met with participants of the meeting of chairmen of parliamentary committees of the CSTO member states on international relations, defense and security
01.02.2023
On February 1 this year, in Moscow, Colonel General Anatoly Sidorov, the Head of the CSTO Joint Staff, had a working meeting with the participants of the second meeting of the chairmen of the committees (commissions) of the parliaments of the CSTO member states, whose competence includes international relations, defense and security issues. The meeting was headed by Leonid Kalashnikov, the Chairman of the State Duma Committee of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation.
The meeting participants have discussed topical issues of improving the system of collective security and the priorities of the CSTO during the presidency of the Republic of Belarus in the Organization in 2023, as well as issues of cooperation in organizing and conducting joint events.
Colonel General Anatoly Sidorov, Chief of the CSTO Joint Staff, briefed the members of the delegation on the activities of the structural subdivisions of the CSTO Joint Staff and the Organization's Crisis Response Center. He briefed parliamentarians on the main directions of development of the military component of the CSTO, on the forces and means of the Organization's collective security system, on the joint training of the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces), as well as on the algorithms of work in crisis response.
A delegation of representatives of parliaments of the CSTO member states was also familiarized with the historical exposition of the lecture and exhibition hall, located in the International Military Center.
