On May 6, 2026, a meeting was held at the CSTO Secretariat between the CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykovand newly appointed Permanent and Plenipotentiary Representative of the Republic of Belarus to the CSTO Vladimir Bespaly.
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.”
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
