On June 10, 2026, a regular meeting of the CSTO Council of Foreign Ministers was held in Kazan (Russian Federation) under the chairmanship of the Russian side, with the participation of CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov. CIS Deputy Secretary General Denis Trefilov and SCO Deputy Secretary General Oleg Kopylov were also invited to attend the meeting.
On June 9, 2026, a delegation of the Secretariat of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, headed by CSTO Deputy Secretary General Valery Semerikov, took part in the 19th Meeting of Heads of Lead Counter-Terrorism Units of the Competent Authorities of the CIS Member States and Heads of National Structures Responsible for Coordinating Counter-Terrorism and Counter-Extremism Activities. The event was organized by the Anti-Terrorism Center of the CIS Member States.
A working meeting between CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov and Director of the Institute of China and Contemporary Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences Kirill Babaev was held at the Secretariat of the Collective Security Treaty Organization.
From June 2 to 4, the Republic of Belarus hosted the second staff talks on the organization and conduct of the CSTO Peacekeeping Forces command-and-staff exercise “Indestructible Brotherhood 2026” and the special exercise “Barrier 2026” involving the CSTO Joint CBRN Protection and Medical Support Formation.
A plan for the CSTO regional operation "Illegal" to counter illegal migration for 2021 has been agreed
31.03.2021On March 31, 2021, under the chairmanship of the Secretary of the Coordination Council of the Heads of the Competent Authorities of the CSTO Member States on Combating Illegal Migration, the Head of the Main Directorate for Migration of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, Police Lieutenant General Valentina Kazakova, a meeting of the International Headquarters of the CSTO regional operation "Illegal" was held.
The meeting was attended by representatives of all national headquarters of the CSTO member states involved in the "Illegal" operation and the CSTO Deputy Secretary General Valery Semerikov.
In the course of the event, representatives of the national headquarters of the Organization's member states substantively discussed the concept of the operation under the code name "Illegal-2021" and agreed on the timing of the stages of active measures in the current year.
In addition, in the course of the meeting, measures for coordinating interaction in the process of the operation were considered and agreed upon, communication channels and the procedure for exchanging information, as well as preparing and sending responses to possible requests from the interacting parties, were determined.
Based on the results of the work of the International Headquarters, it was decided to submit the agreed Plan of operation “Illegal-2021” for signature to the CSTO Secretary General Stanislav Zas and the Chairman of the Coordination Council of the Heads of the Competent Authorities of the CSTO Member States on Combating Illegal Migration, the First Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of Russia, Police Colonel-General Alexander Gorovoy.
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