On May 26 of this year, a round table entitled “35 Years of the Commonwealth of Independent States: Results, Tasks, and Prospects” was held at the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation. The event was attended by heads of integration structures in the post-Soviet space, representatives of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as well as representatives of the embassies of CIS countries in Russia. Opening remarks were delivered by the moderator, Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on International Affairs Grigory Karasin.
On May 26, 2026, a regular meeting of the CSTO Committee of Secretaries of Security Councils (CSSC) was held in Moscow under the chairmanship of the Russian side, with the participation of CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov. The participants conducted a substantive exchange of views on issues related to strengthening security in the CSTO area of responsibility.
On May 25, 2026, a meeting was held at the CSTO Secretariat between CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov, CSTO Deputy Secretary General Valery Semerikov, and Acting Director of the African Union Counter-Terrorism Centre Idriss Mounir Lallali.
On May 25, 2026, a meeting took place at the Secretariat of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) between CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov and the Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the Russian Federation, Kazem Jalali.
On May 20, consultations of representatives (experts) of the defense agencies of the CSTO member states aimed at improving air defense and developing the CSTO Collective Aviation Forces were held via videoconference at the CSTO Joint Staff headquarters.
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.
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