On September 4 this year, a round table entitled “CSTO–SCO: Security Space” was held as part of the business program of the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok. CSTO Secretariat representative Igor Panarin took part in the event.
On September 4, 2026, consultations on “Coordinating the positions of CSTO member states on the agenda of the UN General Assembly” were held in Moscow in accordance with the Plan of Consultations of Representatives of the Collective Security Treaty Organization Member States on Foreign Policy, Security and Defense for 2025–2027.
On September 4 this year, a round table entitled “CSTO–SCO: Security Space” was held as part of the business program of the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok.
Today, a briefing was held by Colonel General Andrey Nikolaevich Serdyukov, Chief of the CSTO Joint Staff, on the topic “On the readiness of command and control bodies and formations of the CSTO collective security system forces and assets to conduct joint exercises.”
CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov holds a working meeting with Minister of Defense of the Kyrgyz Republic Ruslan Mukambetov
Within the framework of improving crisis response, duty shifts have practiced joint actions in identifying sabotage, terrorist attacks and emergencies
23.12.2024
On 20 December, a joint training session was held between the duty shifts of the CSTO Crisis Response Center and the command posts of the defense and emergency ministries of the Organization's member states.
Representatives of the CSTO Crisis Response Center, the Command Post of the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Belarus, the National Defense Control Center of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Crisis Response Center of the Main Operational Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Kyrgyz Republic, the National Defense Control Center of the Russian Federation, the Command Post of the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Tajikistan, as well as the operational duty shifts of ministries of emergency situations of the Republic of Kazakhstan participated in the event via videoconferencing.
In the course of the training, joint actions were practiced by the duty shifts in detecting sabotage at critical infrastructure facilities and incidents on the state border of one of the CSTO member states. In addition, according to the concept of the joint training, an emergency situation involving a large-scale spillage of a chemically hazardous substance developed at one of the facilities as a result of a terrorist act, the elimination of which required the prompt involvement of rescue units.
Colonel Evgeny Chernousov, Deputy Head of the CSTO Crisis Response Center, summarizing the results of the joint training, noted that the duty shifts had successfully worked out all the instructions and issues of interaction in the event of crisis (emergency) situations.
