On June 18, 2026, the 24th Meeting of the Interstate Commission for Military-Economic Cooperation of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (ICMEC CSTO) was held in Minsk on the sidelines of the 3rd International Security Industry Exhibition “National Security. Belarus 2026”. The meeting was chaired by Dmitry Stefanovich, Head of the Belarusian National Section of the ICMEC and Deputy Chairman of the State Authority for Military Industry of the Republic of Belarus.
On June 18, 2026, the 2nd Military-Economic Conference of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, entitled “Development of Cooperation among the Defense Industries (Military-Industrial Complexes) of the CSTO Member States: 20 Years of Practical Cooperation”, was held in Minsk on the sidelines of the 3rd International Security Industry Exhibition “National Security. Belarus 2026”. The event brought together representatives of relevant ministries, agencies, defense enterprises, and other institutions and organizations of the CSTO member states.
A delegation of the CSTO Secretariat, headed by CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov, is taking part in the 3rd International Security Industry Exhibition “National Security. Belarus 2026”, being held in Minsk from June 17 to 19, 2026.
Regular meeting of the Working Group on Electronic Warfare under the CSTO Council of Defense Ministers held in Saint Petersburg
The final stage of the joint business game aimed at preventing and resolving crisis situations will be held at the CSTO Crisis Response Center
27.03.2019
On March 28, 2019, in the CSTO Crisis Response Center under the direction of the Acting Secretary General of the Organization, Valery Semerikov , the final stage of a joint business game to develop solutions aimed at preventing and resolving crisis situations in the Organization’s area of responsibility will be held.
Today, during the second stage, the proposals of the leaders of the Crisis Response Center working groups and the operational groups of the CSTO member states on the use of the CSTO peacekeeping potential to resolve the crisis situation in the conditional state that is a member of the Organization were heard. Draft documents on the elaboration of measures of a political, diplomatic, and military nature were presented, taking into account the need to conduct a peacekeeping operation, which envisages the separation of the conflicting parties, the reception, accommodation of a large number of refugees and the provision of humanitarian assistance to them.
One of the elements of the final stage will be the meeting of the CSTO Permanent Council, which will be held for the first time at the Organization's Crisis Response Center. During the meeting, the participants of the Business Game will present conclusions from the conditional military-political situation in the zone of escalation of tension. Based on them, the members of the Permanent Council will consider draft decisions of the Collective Security Council, as well as the Councils of Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Defense, the Committee of Secretaries of Security Councils of the Organization for Crisis Management in several regions of collective security.
Members of the CSTO Secretariat, representatives of the CSTO Joint Staff and operational groups of interested ministries and departments of the Organization's member states take part in the joint business game.
Spent during the game materials will serve as the basis for the preparation and holding a joint operational-strategic exercise "Combat Brotherhood - 2019", which is scheduled to be held this fall
