From September 22 to 25, 2026, CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov will take part in the High-Level Week of the 81st session of the UN General Assembly in New York. Meetings between Talatbek Masadykov and UN Secretary-General António Guterres and his deputies are scheduled. The meetings are expected to address a wide range of current issues, in particular, peacekeeping and counter-terrorism.
On September 23, Talatbek Masadykov will take part in the traditional annual meeting of the foreign ministers of the CSTO member states, held on the sidelines of the General Assembly of the world organization.
Today, the active phase of the joint exercise with the Collective Rapid Deployment Forces of the Central Asian Region (CRDF CAR) “Frontier-2026” concluded on the territory of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
During the “Conduct of combat operations” stage, two main training objectives are being practiced: the occupation by the national contingents of the CRDF CAR of the area of responsibility and the destruction of illegal armed formations that have invaded the territory of a CSTO member state.
The active phase of the joint exercise with the Collective Rapid Deployment Forces of the Central Asian Region (CRDF CAR) “Frontier-2026” has begun at the Koktal training range in the Republic of Kazakhstan. During the exercise, the participating forces are practicing the preparation and conduct of combat operations to destroy illegal armed formations that have invaded the territory of a CSTO member state.
Issues of improving the communications system were discussed at a working meeting of the heads of the defense communications management bodies of the CSTO member states
10.04.2025
On 8-10 April, a working meeting of the heads of the defense communications management bodies of the CSTO member states is being held in Bishkek, the capital of the Kyrgyz Republic. Delegations from the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Russian Federation, the Republic of Tajikistan, the CSTO Joint Staff and industry representatives are taking part in the meeting.
In his video message to the participants in the working meeting, Colonel General Andrei Serdyukov, Chief of the CSTO Joint Staff, drew attention to the need for joint efforts to prepare decisions at the interstate level that would help to improve the command and control system of coalition groupings of troops and to form common views and approaches to the development of the communications system as the technical basis of the command and control system. He also noted that targeted work in this area in the Joint Staff was organized and carried out in close cooperation with the defense departments of states.
In the course of the working meeting, the meeting participants discussed issues related to the interfacing of equipment and means of communication, taking into account the experience of contemporary local conflicts, the improvement of the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces) communications system and information cooperation. Particular attention is being paid to the consideration of the use in the contingents of CSTO Troops (Collective Forces) of promising means of communication that provide fundamentally new possibilities for organizing communications.
The working meeting resulted in the adoption of proposals aimed at improving the functioning of the communication system, and defined areas for improving the technical basis of the CSTO interstate information interaction system.
