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 CSTO Crisis Response Center hosted a strategic command and staff training aimed at deploying the assets of the collective security system
16.09.2020
In the period from 15 to 16 September in the Collective Security Treaty Organization, under the charge of the Chief of the CSTO Joint Staff, Colonel-General Anatoly Sidorov, a strategic command and staff training was held on the topic “Preparation of proposals and development of draft decisions for the CSTO bodies on the formation and deployment of assets of the collective security in the Caucasian region of collective security”.
In Moscow, on the basis of the Crisis Response Center, functional groups were deployed, which included representatives of the Joint Staff and the Secretariat of the CSTO, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation, the National Guard of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Civil Defense Affairs, Emergencies and Liquidation of Consequences of Natural Disasters, the Anti-Terrorist Center and the Council of Commanders of the Border Troops of the Commonwealth of Independent States member states. Operational groups of interested ministries and departments of the CSTO member states participated in the training via videoconferencing.
At the first stage, the training participants assessed the military-political and military-strategic situation in the area of responsibility of the Organization, predicted its development, and worked out proposals for priority measures of a political and diplomatic nature.
At the second stage, proposals were prepared on the composition, operational deployment and use of the CSTO Collective Rapid Reaction Forces, as well as on the provision of military-technical assistance to the CSTO member state.
The participants in the training developed draft relevant decisions of the CSTO bodies. In the course of the training, reports of draft decisions of the Collective Security Council, the Council of Foreign Ministers, the Council of Defense Ministers and the Committee of Secretaries of Security Councils on issues related to the implementation of joint measures to resolve the crisis situation in the Caucasus region of collective security were heard.
Summing up the results, the chief of the CSTO Joint Staff, Colonel-General Anatoly Sidorov, said that in the course of the strategic command and staff training, the main attention was paid to working out the issues of organizational, information and analytical support for decision-making on the formation and deployment of the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces). He noted the increased level of professional development of the training participants: "as part of the functional groups of the CSTO Crisis Response Center, the skills of officials were successfully improved at the stage of developing joint measures." “The active work of the training participants allowed working out the algorithm of functioning of the Organization's Crisis Response Center and the issues of its interaction with the authorized bodies of the CSTO member states,” Anatoly Sidorov said.
In the concept of the strategic command and staff training, a conditional military-political situation was used, taking into account modern challenges and threats and created for conducting joint trainings with the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces) this year. The documents worked out in the course of the strategic command and staff training will be used in the course of the trainings with the participation of the CSTO Collective Forces.
