On 5 March 2026, a working meeting was held at the Secretariat of the Collective Security Treaty Organization between CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov and Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Belarus to the Russian Federation Yuri Seliverstov.
On 4 March, Secretary of the Security Council of the Kyrgyz Republic Adilet Orozbekov presented certificates of advanced training in the field of “Information Security of Automated Systems” to civil servants.
The Protocol amending the Agreement on Cooperation of the CSTO Member States in the Field of Transportation of Military and Other Formations, Their Movable Property, as well as Military Products, and the Protocol amending the Agreement on the Status of Formations of Forces and Means of the CSTO Collective Security System, signed during the session of the CSTO Collective Security Council in Astana on 28 November 2024, have entered into force.
The CSTO Secretariat has received with deep concern reports of the launch of massive strikes by the United States and Israel against the territory of Iran, accompanied, inter alia, by civilian casualties.
The CSTO Secretariat is closely monitoring developments on the Afghanistan–Pakistan border. The Organization is interested in peace and stability in the region and proceeds from the understanding that the only viable solution is a political and diplomatic settlement of the conflict.
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.
