On June 18, 2026, the 24th Meeting of the Interstate Commission for Military-Economic Cooperation of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (ICMEC CSTO) was held in Minsk on the sidelines of the 3rd International Security Industry Exhibition “National Security. Belarus 2026”. The meeting was chaired by Dmitry Stefanovich, Head of the Belarusian National Section of the ICMEC and Deputy Chairman of the State Authority for Military Industry of the Republic of Belarus.
On June 18, 2026, the 2nd Military-Economic Conference of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, entitled “Development of Cooperation among the Defense Industries (Military-Industrial Complexes) of the CSTO Member States: 20 Years of Practical Cooperation”, was held in Minsk on the sidelines of the 3rd International Security Industry Exhibition “National Security. Belarus 2026”. The event brought together representatives of relevant ministries, agencies, defense enterprises, and other institutions and organizations of the CSTO member states.
A delegation of the CSTO Secretariat, headed by CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov, is taking part in the 3rd International Security Industry Exhibition “National Security. Belarus 2026”, being held in Minsk from June 17 to 19, 2026.
Regular meeting of the Working Group on Electronic Warfare under the CSTO Council of Defense Ministers held in Saint Petersburg
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.
