85 years ago, the Great Patriotic War began. The war machine of Nazi Germany launched a treacherous attack against Soviet cities and villages and committed unprecedented atrocities against Soviet citizens. The peoples of the Soviet Union rose to defend their common Motherland and paid an enormous price for peace, freedom, and the right to live on their own land.
On June 17–18, 2026, CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov visited sections of the State Border of the Republic of Belarus with Poland and Lithuania.
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.
The CSTO Secretariat hosted the first meeting of the Permanent Council in 2025
16.01.2025
On January 16, the CSTO Secretariat hosted the first meeting of the CSTO Permanent Council of the coming year. The Chairmanship of the CSTO Permanent Council was handed over to Mirlan Turgunbekov, Permanent and Plenipotentiary Representative of the Kyrgyz Republic to the CSTO.
The CSTO Secretary General thanked Marat Syzdykov, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Kazakhstan to the CSTO, for his work as Chairman of the Permanent Council in 2024.
Also during the meeting, the Organization's action plan for 2025 was discussed. On the initiative of the new Chairperson, Mr. Mirlan Turgunbekov, the Permanent Council formulated the motto of its activities in 2025: 80 Years of the Great Victory!
