28 April marks the Day of the CSTO Joint Staff. It should be recalled that on 28 April 2003, in Dushanbe, the Collective Security Council, guided by the need to establish a military staff body responsible for implementing the military component of the Collective Security Treaty, adopted the Decision “On the Establishment of the Joint Staff of the Collective Security Treaty Organization.”
On 27 April 2026, within the framework of the International Scientific and Practical Conference “Contours of a New Architecture of Collective Security: Current Issues of Information and Analytical Partnership within the CSTO,” held at MGIMO University of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, a round table entitled “Eurasian Analytical Platform: New Approaches in a New Geopolitical Reality” took place. During the event, Head of the Information and Public Relations Department of the CSTO Secretariat Yuriy Shuvalov delivered a presentation on “The Eurasian Analytical Network: A New Cognitive Architecture of Collective Security.”
Meeting of the Working Group on Afghanistan under the CSTO Council of Ministers of Foreign Affairs
25.05.2021On May 25, 2021, in the CSTO Secretariat, chaired by the Head of the Working Group, National Coordinator of the Republic of Tajikistan for Afghanistan Vafo Niyatbekzoda, with the participation of the CSTO Deputy Secretary General Samat Ordabaev, the 33rd meeting of the Working Group on Afghanistan under the CSTO Council of Ministers of Foreign Affairs (WGA) was held.
The meeting was also attended by representatives of the CIS ATC and the SCO RATS. The Deputy Secretary General of the Organization, Samat Ordabaev, noted that Afghanistan remains a territory from which serious threats to the security of the CSTO member states are emanating, especially in light of the alleged withdrawal of foreign military contingent from the IRA. In this regard, the demand for the activities of the Working Group on Afghanistan under the CSTO Council of Ministers of Foreign Affairs and cooperation of the CSTO member states in the Afghan sector is significantly increasing. Samat Ordabaev also informed that the Afghan problem was discussed in detail during the recent meetings of the Council of Foreign Ministers, the Council of Defense Ministers and the Committee of Secretaries of Security Councils of the Organization in Dushanbe.
At the end of the meeting, the results of the Group's work for the first half of 2021 were summed up and the Work Plan of the WGA for the second half of 2021 was adopted.
