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 held a meeting with media representatives on the occasion of the Press Day in Russia
15.01.2024
On 15 January 2024, the CSTO Secretariat hosted a meeting with representatives of leading news agencies, periodicals and television channels on the occasion of the Press Day in Russia. The event was attended by representatives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation.
The parties had a thorough and interested exchange of views on the role and place of the CSTO in the sphere of Eurasian security and the priorities of the Organization’s information policy. Yury Shuvalov, Head of the Information and Public Relations Department of the CSTO Secretariat, conveyed a congratulatory message to the media representatives on behalf of the CSTO Secretary General Imangali Tasmagambetov, spoke about the information, analytical and forecasting activities of the Organization, its cooperation with leading research centers in the member states and outlined the areas of work for 2024. In this context, the importance of cooperation with partner international organizations such as the SCO, the CIS, the EAEU and the BRICS was underlined.
Yury Shuvalov announced the launch of new media projects within the CSTO. One of them is the organization of the School of Young Newsmakers with the support of the Information and Press Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry. The Centre for Socially Conservative Politics is expected to be one of the venues. It is also planned to support authors of scientific works on Eurasian security issues. To this end, it is planned to use the analytical media publication "Allies. CSTO", in which the best studies will be published. At the end of the year, their authors will receive awards in various categories.
Similar events are planned for the Press Days in other member states of the Organization.
