The Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov received the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the CSTO member states and the Secretary General of the Organization in Cholpon-Ata on June 30. The meeting was attended by the Foreign Ministers of Kyrgyzstan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Russia and Tajikistan.
On June 30, 2025, a regular meeting of the CSTO Council of Foreign Ministers was held in Cholpon-Ata (the Kyrgyz Republic) under the chairmanship of the Kyrgyz side, which was attended by the Organization's Secretary General Imangali Tasmagambetov.
Safar Umarzoda, Head of the Department for Countering Challenges and Threats of the CSTO Secretariat, took part in a special event (side-event) on "Countering Radicalization leading to terrorism and Extremism" organized by the Russian Federation on the margins of the OSCE Annual Conference on Security Review, where he reported on the measures taken by the CSTO on countering terrorism and extremism, and willingness to share the experience gained.
On June 19, 2025, in Bosteri, Issyk-Kul region of the Kyrgyz Republic, the XIX meeting of the Council of the Advisory Coordination Center of the Collective Security Treaty Organization on Computer Incident Response (CSTO CCC) was held, which was attended by delegations of representatives of national authorized bodies for responding to computer incidents of the CSTO member states.
On June 24-26, the second staff negotiations were held in the Kyrgyz Republic on the organization and conduct an operational meeting with the Command of the Collective Rapid Deployment Forces of the Central Asian Region (CAR CRDF) and a command and staff training with units of the CAR CRDF "Rubezh-2025", conducted as part of the joint operational and strategic training "Combat Brotherhood-2025".
The CSTO Secretariat has discussed measures to counteract crimes in the sphere of information technologies
19.03.2025
On 19 March 2025, in the CSTO Secretariat, a meeting of the heads and plenipotentiary representatives of the heads of the national headquarters for the Collective Security Treaty Organization's permanent operation to combat crimes in the field of information technology (Operation “PROXY”) was held under the chairmanship of Valery Semerikov, the CSTO Deputy Secretary General. The event was also attended by delegations of representatives of the national authorized bodies in charge of combating crimes in the sphere of information technology of the CSTO member states.
Valery Semerikov, the CSTO Deputy Secretary General, opened the meeting and addressed the participants. “In 2024, despite the difficult situation and the increasing scale of unlawful actions against our states, the units of authorized and coordinating structures, which are part of the national headquarters of Operation “PROXY”, solved complex, non-standard operational tasks, covered the information space, actively fought cyberterrorism and organized crime, drug trafficking, extremism and illegal migration - carried out through information technologies. The set of planned activities has been generally fulfilled. Employees of law enforcement agencies, special services and law enforcement agencies, specialized ministries and departments of the Organization's member states directly involved in measures to counter crimes in the field of information technologies acted effectively and professionally,” V.A. Semerikov noted in his speech.
During the meeting, the heads and authorized representatives of the national headquarters for the operation discussed its results for 2024 and, taking into account the priorities of the Kyrgyz Republic for the period of its chairmanship of the CSTO, identified priority areas for focusing collective efforts to counter criminal manifestations in the field of information technology in the current year and in the future.
The main efforts of the CSTO member states in 2025 will be aimed at countering:
– use of the Internet to disseminate information that causes political damage to national and allied interests, destabilization of the internal political situation, and incitement of interethnic and religious discord;
– activities of criminal groups of terrorist and extremist orientation and the dissemination of information, including on the Internet, related to the involvement of citizens of member states of the Organization in armed conflicts and in terrorist and extremist organizations;
– Illegal drug trafficking activities carried out through the use of information and communication technologies and the Internet;
– the commission of electronic fraud.
The meeting participants unequivocally noted that Operation “PROXY” remained an effective instrument of collective cooperation and is aimed at strengthening the collective security of the CSTO member states.
