Delegation of the CSTO Secretariat headed by the Deputy Secretary General of the Organization will take part in the 13th international meeting of high representatives in charge of security issues.
On May 13, 2025, the 41st meeting of the Working Group on Afghanistan under the CSTO Ministerial Council was held with the participation of CSTO Deputy Secretary General Samat Ordabaev. The event was also attended by delegations of the Organization's member states and representatives of the UNOCT, the UNRCCA, the CIS ATC, the CIS Coordination Service of the CIS Council of Commanders of Border Troops and the ICRC.
Today, in Moscow's Red Square, parade dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 was attended by ceremonial regiments of the armed forces of the CSTO member states.
Officers, non-commissioned officers and soldiers of military contingents from the armed forces of the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic and the Republic of Tajikistan marched through the main square of the Russian Federation in single formation with the Russian by ceremonial regiments. The sequence of their march was determined by alphabetical order.
On April 25, 2025 in the Academy of Management of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia took place a solemn graduation of representatives of the senior staff of law enforcement agencies and services of the CSTO member states: the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Russian Federation, the Republic of Tajikistan, who improved their qualification in the form of specialized training on the topic “Training of personnel and leading specialists for law enforcement agencies and services of the CSTO member states”.
28 April is the Day of Establishment of the Joint Staff of the Collective Security Treaty Organization. We recall that on 28 April 2003. in the city of Dushanbe, the Collective Security Council, guided by the need to establish a military staff body responsible for the implementation of the tasks of the military component of the Collective Security Treaty, adopted a decision on the establishment of the Joint Staff of the Collective Security Treaty Organization.
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.
