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 Republic of Tajikistan will host a special-purpose training “Kobalt-2021”
15.11.2021
From 17 to 19 November, this year, tactical and special training with special units, included in the formations of special forces of the Collective Rapid Reaction Forces (CRRF) of the CSTO under the code name "Cobalt-2021" will take place in the territory of the Republic of Tajikistan. The training is being conducted in accordance with the 2021 Plan for the joint training of command and control bodies and formations of the assets of the CSTO collective security system.
The training will be conducted in two stages. During the first stage, the issues of formation and coordination of the Operational Staff of the CSTO CRRF formations of special forces and planning the use of the group of the assets of the CSTO CRRF formations of special forces as intended will be practiced.
The second stage will include a practical training of combined operational and combat teams of competent authorities of CSTO member States in a special operation to destroy (neutralize) illegal armed groups in the border areas.
In the course of the command and staff training with the operational staff of the Operational Headquarters of the CSTO CRRF formations of special forces, it is planned to test all elements of interspecific interaction, planning and conducting a special operation.
During practice of training tasks special troops of bodies of internal affairs, national guard, drug control, state security services of CSTO member States in close contact with units of Armed Forces, Border Troops of the Republic of Tajikistan and Committee on Emergency Situations and Civil Defense under the Government of the Republic of Tajikistan as well as servicemen of 201st Russian military base will practice interaction and field training, exchange experience, receive skills of participation in a large-scale special operation in conditions close to combat.
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The CSTO Press Secretary Vladimir Zaynetdinov
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