From 21 to 25 April this year, the CSTO Secretariat is holding an annual training course for representatives of the CSTO member states without military status.
The meeting was held in the city of Moscow at the CSTO Joint Staff under the chairmanship of Viktor Zinoviev, Secretary of the CSTO Interstate Commission on Military-Economic Cooperation (ICMEC, Commission).
From April 7 to 10, 2025 on the basis of the Park-Hotel “Ognikovo” of Istrinsky district of Moscow region, the XXII International seminar-meeting on complex martial arts with the heads of combat and physical training of power ministries and departments of the CSTO member states took place.
On April 11, 2025, in Dushanbe, the CSTO Secretary General Imangali Tasmagambetov met with the Tajik Defense Minister Emomali Sobirzoda, the Secretary of the Security Council of the Republic of Tajikistan Rahmon Yusuf Ahmadzoda and the First Deputy Chairman - Commander of Border Troops of the State Committee for National Security of Tajikistan Murodali Rajab Rajabzoda.
The CSTO has agreed on Plan for a regional operation to counter illegal migration in 2025
26.03.2025
On 26 March 2025, a meeting of the International Headquarters of the CSTO regional operation “Illegal” was held under the chairmanship of Valentina L. Kazakova, Lieutenant General of Police, Secretary of the Coordinating Council of Heads of Competent Bodies of the CSTO Member States on Combating Illegal Migration and Head of the GUVM MIA of the Russian Federation.
Valery Semerikov, the CSTO Deputy Secretary General, took part in the meeting and made a welcoming speech to the participants.
During the meeting, the heads and members of the national headquarters of the Organization's member states for the preparation and conduct of the operation, together with the participating representatives of the Anti-Terrorist Center and the Coordination Service of the Council of Commanders of the Border Troops of the CIS member states, as well as representatives of other interacting services of the CSTO member states, discussed the concept of the operation under the conditional name “Illegal-2025” and agreed on the timing of the stages of active measures in the current year, and clarified the procedure for the implementation of the operation.
