On July 4, 2025, a delegation of the CSTO Secretariat visited the Central Military-Patriotic Park of Culture and Recreation of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation "Patriot".
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.
Details of the "Indestructible Brotherhood-2025" and "Barrier-2025" trainings have been discussed in the Republic of Tajikistan
19.06.2025
On June 17-19, the Republic of Tajikistan hosted the second staff talks on the organization and conduct of a joint training with the CSTO Peacekeeping Forces "Indestructible Brotherhood-2025" and a special training with the joint formation of the CSTO NBC defense and medical support formation "Barrier-2025", held at the final stage of the joint operational and strategic training "Combat Brotherhood-2025".
The event was attended by representatives of interested ministries and departments of the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Russian Federation, the Republic of Tajikistan, the CIS Anti-Terrorist Center, the CSTO Secretariat and a group of officers of the Organization's Joint Staff headed by Major General Ilkhomjon Hafizzoda.
During the staff negotiations, the plans of the trainings, the composition of the command and national contingents, the procedure for practical actions, as well as the organization of comprehensive support were considered and agreed upon.
The participants in the staff negotiations conducted a reconnaissance of the training area at the Fakhrabad training ground.
During the joint training with the CSTO Peacekeeping Forces "Indestructible Brotherhood-2025" and a special training with the joint formation of the CSTO NBC defense and medical support formation "Barrier-2025" in October this year in the territory of the Republic of Tajikistan, it is planned to work out issues of conducting a peacekeeping operation by the CSTO Collective Peacekeeping Forces and eliminating sources of biological threats. The active phase of the training "Indestructible Brotherhood-2025" will be held in a combined format with the final stage of the joint anti–terrorist training of the competent authorities of the CIS member states "Commonwealth of Antiterrorism-2025".
