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 VI Coordination Meeting of the High-Level Representatives the Collective Security Treaty Organization and the International Committee of the Red Cross took place in Geneva
26.11.2021On November 26, 2021, the VI Coordination Meeting of the High-Level Representatives of the Collective Security Treaty Organization and the International Committee of the Red Cross was held at the ICRC headquarters (Geneva).
Prior to the meeting, the CSTO Deputy Secretary General Takhir Khayrulloyev had a meeting with the ICRC Director General Robert Mardini to exchange views on strategic and operational priorities of humanitarian activities relevant to both organizations with respect to conflict regions of mutual interest.
The CSTO Secretariat was represented by the Deputy Secretary General Takhir Khayrulloyev and responsible officials from the CSTO Secretariat and the CSTO Joint Staff. The ICRC was represented by Dominique Stillhart, the Head of the ICRC Directorate for Operations, and heads of structural divisions of the ICRC Headquarters in Geneva and of the ICRC Regional Delegation in the Russian Federation, the Republic of Belarus and the Republic of Moldova.
In the course of the Coordination Meeting, the parties have discussed a wide range of issues:
- on key regions of ICRC operational activities and CSTO regions of responsibility;
- on the humanitarian situation in and around Afghanistan, the main threats to security and stability in the region and ways of overcoming them;
- on countering terrorism and violent extremism;
- on the current status and prospects for the development of cooperation with the CSTO Secretariat and the CSTO Joint Staff, the Coordination Council for Emergency Situations and the Working Group on Afghanistan;
- on the results of joint work of our organizations in 2021 and prospects for 2022;
- on the ICRC participation in joint trainings of the forces and means of the CSTO collective security system as regards the use of ICRC proposals on the application of international humanitarian law norms in developing the design of trainings and analysis of their results.
There was a constructive exchange of views on the development of cooperation between the working bodies of the CSTO and the ICRC for the short and long term in order to increase mutual trust and continue the practice of participation in joint activities.
The result of this event was the confirmation of mutual interest in improving the mechanism of interaction between the CSTO and the ICRC and the signing of the Resolution, which confirmed the readiness of the CSTO and the ICRC working bodies to continue their work and develop cooperation to enhance the thematic and expert exchange of views on topics of mutual interest and to ensure closer cooperation between the ICRC and the CSTO in terms of compliance with international humanitarian law.
It was agreed that the next Coordination Meeting will be held in Moscow in 2023.
The CSTO Press Secretary
Vladimir Zaynetdinov
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