On May 15, 2026, a meeting of the CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov with media representatives of the CSTO member states was held at the CSTO Secretariat to mark the 34th anniversary of the signing of the Collective Security Treaty.
CSTO Deputy Secretary General Valery Semerikov held a meeting at the Organization’s Secretariat with a delegation of the Monitoring Team of the UN Security Council Sanctions Committees 1267/1989/2253 concerning ISIL and Al-Qaeda and 1988 concerning the Taliban Movement United Nations Security Council.
A working meeting was held between the CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov and Head of the Center for Scientific and Analytical Information of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Political Sciences Nikolay Plotnikov.
On May 7, the CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov held a working meeting in Moscow at the CSTO Joint Staff aimed at improving issues related to crisis response and expert cooperation.
As part of the business program of the IX International Exhibition of Armament and Military Equipment "MILEX-2019", CSTO events were held with the participation of the CSTO Acting Secretary General Valery Semerikov
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In particular, on May 16, a joint meeting of the Board Council of the Military-Industrial Commission of the Russian Federation on military-economic (technical) cooperation in the format of the CSTO, the Belarusian and Russian national parts of the Interstate Commission on military-economic cooperation of the CSTO was held with the participation of representatives of defense enterprises and organizations economy of Belarus and the military-industrial complex of Russia.
The meeting was attended by the CSTO Acting Secretary General Valery Semerikov and the CSTO Deputy Secretary General Piotr Tsikhanouski.
On the Belarusian side, the delegation was led by the Deputy Chairman of the State Military-Industrial Committee of the Republic of Belarus, the Head of the Belarusian National Part of the CSTO Intergovernmental Commission on Military-Economic Cooperation Dmitry Pantus.
The Russian delegation was headed by the chairman of the board of the board of the Military-Industrial Commission of the Russian Federation on issues of military-economic (technical) cooperation in the CSTO format, a member of the board of the Military-Industrial Commission Mikhail Osyko.
In his welcoming speech to the participants of the meeting, the CSTO Acting Secretary General Valery Semerikov, on the example of similar meetings held with the participation of the CSTO Secretariat in 2017-2018 in Tajikistan and Armenia, noted the effectiveness of such a format for discussing issues of cooperation between national defense industry states of the Organization in the field of military-economic cooperation. At the same time, he stressed the importance of the measures developed in the course of such measures in the practical implementation of the CSTO Collective Security Council adopted in 2016 in the Program of Military-Economic Cooperation of the CSTO Member States.
During the meeting, issues of bilateral military-economic cooperation between Belarus and Russia were considered, directions for further development of cooperation ties between defense enterprises in the development, production, repair and modernization of military products were determined.
Following the Joint Meeting, the Protocol was signed.
In addition, on May 16, a meeting of the Business Council under the Interstate Commission for Military-Economic Cooperation of CSTO was held, chaired by the Chairman of the Business Council Alexander Nozdrachev and with the participation of the CSTO Deputy Secretary General Piotr Tsikhanouski.
During the meeting, already in a multilateral format, the issues of industrial and scientific-technical cooperation of enterprises and organizations of defense-industrial (military-industrial) complexes of the Organization’s member-states in the field of development, production, repair and modernization of military products, creation of service centers continued. repair and maintenance of weapons and military equipment.
The Protocol of the meeting by the participants of the national parts of the Business Council expressed the intention to develop joint projects in the field of the production of ammunition and their elements, in the field of electronics and microelectronics, as well as the creation of service centers for the repair and maintenance of air defense equipment.
On May 17, a meeting of the Coordination Council of the authorized bodies of the CSTO member states on advertising and exhibition activities will be held.
It is supposed to consider proposals for amending the List of international exhibitions held in 2020, at which it is possible to form expositions of military, dual-purpose and special-purpose products and technologies of the CSTO member states.
It is also planned to discuss the preparation of international weapons salons in the territory of the CSTO member states in July 2019 - May 2020 and the planning of the CSTO business program at the said salons in 2020, and also consider the possibility of providing preferential participation conditions for organizers of national exhibition expositions of the CSTO member states in such exhibitions.
