Delegation of the CSTO Secretariat headed by the Deputy Secretary General of the Organization will take part in the 13th international meeting of high representatives in charge of security issues.
On May 13, 2025, the 41st meeting of the Working Group on Afghanistan under the CSTO Ministerial Council was held with the participation of CSTO Deputy Secretary General Samat Ordabaev. The event was also attended by delegations of the Organization's member states and representatives of the UNOCT, the UNRCCA, the CIS ATC, the CIS Coordination Service of the CIS Council of Commanders of Border Troops and the ICRC.
Today, in Moscow's Red Square, parade dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 was attended by ceremonial regiments of the armed forces of the CSTO member states.
Officers, non-commissioned officers and soldiers of military contingents from the armed forces of the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic and the Republic of Tajikistan marched through the main square of the Russian Federation in single formation with the Russian by ceremonial regiments. The sequence of their march was determined by alphabetical order.
On April 25, 2025 in the Academy of Management of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia took place a solemn graduation of representatives of the senior staff of law enforcement agencies and services of the CSTO member states: the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Russian Federation, the Republic of Tajikistan, who improved their qualification in the form of specialized training on the topic “Training of personnel and leading specialists for law enforcement agencies and services of the CSTO member states”.
28 April is the Day of Establishment of the Joint Staff of the Collective Security Treaty Organization. We recall that on 28 April 2003. in the city of Dushanbe, the Collective Security Council, guided by the need to establish a military staff body responsible for the implementation of the tasks of the military component of the Collective Security Treaty, adopted a decision on the establishment of the Joint Staff of the Collective Security Treaty Organization.
The Joint Staff held consultations aimed at improving the preparation and conduct of trainings with the CSTO Peacekeeping Forces
15.06.2023
On June 14, this year, under the chairmanship of the Deputy Chief of the CSTO Joint Staff, Air Force Major-General Turaly Koyshikulov, consultations were held via videoconferencing with authorized representatives of interested ministries and departments of the CSTO member states, the CSTO Secretariat and the CSTO Joint Staff to finalize, taking into account the positions received on the results of internal approval, the draft Decision of the CFM, the CMD and the CSTO CSSC "On methodological recommendations on preparation and conduct of trainings with peacekeeping contingents of the CSTO member states allocated as part of the CSTO Peacekeeping Forces”.
Representatives of concerned ministries and agencies of the Republic of Armenia, the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Russian Federation, the Republic of Tajikistan, as well as the CSTO Secretariat and the CSTO Joint Staff took part in the consultations.
The Draft Decision of the CFM, the CMD and the CSTO CSSC " On methodological recommendations on preparation and conduct of trainings with peacekeeping contingents of the CSTO member states allocated as part of the CSTO Peacekeeping Forces" was developed by the CSTO Joint Staff taking into account the experience of peacekeeping trainings and as part of work to amend the regulatory acts governing the joint operational and combat training of the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces) to bring the currently effective methodological recommendations in line with the Regulation on procedure for preparation and conduct of joint combat trainings in the CSTO format.
In the course of consultations, draft Methodological recommendations on preparation and conduct of trainings with peacekeeping contingents of the CSTO member states allocated as part of the CSTO Peacekeeping Forces were discussed, finalized and largely agreed upon. As a result of the consultations, it was decided to recommend to the CSTO Joint Staff to submit a draft document for consideration by the CSTO Permanent Council.
We recall that this year's joint training with the CSTO Peacekeeping Forces "Indestructible Brotherhood-2023" is planned at the final stage of the joint operational-strategic training "Combat Brotherhood-2023". On the territory of the Kyrgyz Republic, the tasks of post-conflict settlement in the crisis zone will be practiced by conducting a peacekeeping operation using the forces and means of the CSTO collective security system in the interests of maintaining peace and security.
The peacekeeping contingents of the CSTO member states are specially trained military, police (police) and civilian personnel, as well as forces and means provided by member states to the CSTO Peacekeeping Forces. Their total number is 3,800.
For each peacekeeping operation, the composition, structure and size of the Collective Peacekeeping Forces are determined by decision of the CSTO Collective Security Council, based on the scope of the tasks to be performed and the specific situation in the conflict zone.
