In Kazakhstan, a joint command-staff training with the CSTO Collective Peacekeeping Forces (CPF) began practicing combat training tasks at checkpoints, roadblocks and refugee reception points, escorting convoys and cargoes, and providing humanitarian assistance. On the eve of the training, Major General Almaz Dzhumakeyev, head of the training, presented the commander of the CPF with a mandate to prepare and conduct a peacekeeping operation.
Today, in the Republic of Kazakhstan, at the training range “Bereg”, the opening ceremony of the active phase of the command-staff training with the Peacekeeping Forces of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) “Indestructible Brotherhood-2024” was held.
On September 30, 2024, in Almaty, under the chairmanship of the First Vice-Minister of Health of the Republic of Kazakhstan T.S. Sultangaziev, the IV meeting of the Coordination Council of authorized bodies of the CSTO member states on biological security issues was held.
According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan, on September 26, 2024, under the chairmanship of the Deputy Prime Minister - Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan Murat Nurtleu, a working meeting of foreign ministers of the member states of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) was held. This meeting occurs annually on the margins of the UN General Assembly.
On 25-26 September 2024, the IV International Conference on the Spread of Extremist Ideology, organized by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, was held in Moscow.
The CSTO Military Committee has discussed issues of military cooperation development
12.04.2024
The 23rd meeting of the Military Committee on military cooperation development among the CSTO member states under the supervision of the Chairman of the Military Committee, Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation - First Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, Army General Valery Gerasimov, took place today via videoconferencing.
The meeting was attended by Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces - First Deputy Minister of Defense of the Republic of Belarus, Major General Viktor Gulevich; First Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Lieutenant General of Aviation Nurlan Karbenov; Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces - First Deputy Minister of Defense of the Kyrgyz Republic, Major General Ruslan Mukambetov; Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces - First Deputy Minister of Defense of the Republic of Tajikistan Lieutenant General Emomali Sobirzoda; Chief of the CSTO Joint Staff, Colonel General Andrei Serdyukov; the Deputy Secretary General of the CSTO Taalatbek Masadykov, representatives of the defense agencies of the Organization's member states, the CSTO Joint Staff and the CSTO Secretariat.
First Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Lieutenant General of Aviation Nurlan Karbenov, made a report on the priority areas of CSTO activities in the military sphere, proposed by the Republic of Kazakhstan for the period of chairmanship in the Organization in 2024, and measures for their implementation.
Challenges and threats to military security in the CSTO collective security regions were discussed during the meeting. Lieutenant General Khasan Kaloyev, First Deputy Chief of the Joint Staff and Head of the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces) Planning and Training Centre, gave a presentation on the subject.
Colonel General Andrei Serdyukov, Chief of the CSTO Joint Staff, made a report on measures for joint training of the CSTO collective security system's control bodies and formations of forces and means in 2024 and planned measures for 2025.
The members of the Military Committee have considered issues related to the organization of air defense in the CSTO Central Asian collective security region and the further development of the CSTO Collective Aviation Forces, information on which was reported by Lieutenant General Anatoly Yakovlev, Head of the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces) Application Planning Department - Deputy Head of the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces) Application Planning and Training Centre of the CSTO Joint Staff.
The meeting heard reports by representatives of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on the experience of the use by the armed forces of the Russian Federation of EW forces and means and strike drones, which the Military Committee recommended should be taken into account when conducting joint trainings in the CSTO format.
Summing up the results of the meeting of the CSTO Military Committee, the Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation - First Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, Army General Valery Gerasimov, noted that it had been held in a businesslike and constructive manner and that its results would contribute to the progressive development and strengthening of the military security of the Organization's states.
