On June 10, 2026, a regular meeting of the CSTO Council of Foreign Ministers was held in Kazan (Russian Federation) under the chairmanship of the Russian side, with the participation of CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov. CIS Deputy Secretary General Denis Trefilov and SCO Deputy Secretary General Oleg Kopylov were also invited to attend the meeting.
On June 9, 2026, a delegation of the Secretariat of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, headed by CSTO Deputy Secretary General Valery Semerikov, took part in the 19th Meeting of Heads of Lead Counter-Terrorism Units of the Competent Authorities of the CIS Member States and Heads of National Structures Responsible for Coordinating Counter-Terrorism and Counter-Extremism Activities. The event was organized by the Anti-Terrorism Center of the CIS Member States.
A working meeting between CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov and Director of the Institute of China and Contemporary Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences Kirill Babaev was held at the Secretariat of the Collective Security Treaty Organization.
From June 2 to 4, the Republic of Belarus hosted the second staff talks on the organization and conduct of the CSTO Peacekeeping Forces command-and-staff exercise “Indestructible Brotherhood 2026” and the special exercise “Barrier 2026” involving the CSTO Joint CBRN Protection and Medical Support Formation.
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.
