On 15 April 2026, a meeting was held in Bishkek between CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov and Minister of Defense of the Kyrgyz Republic Ruslan Mukambetov.
On 15 April 2026, a meeting was held in Bishkek between CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov and Secretary of the Security Council of the Kyrgyz Republic Adilet Orozbekov.
On 15 April 2026, a meeting was held in Bishkek between CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kyrgyz Republic Jeenbek Kulubaev.
On 13 April 2026, meetings were held in Astana between CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov and Secretary of the Security Council of Kazakhstan Gizat Nurdauletov, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan Yerlan Kosherbayev, and Minister of Defense of Kazakhstan Dauren Kosanov.
From 13 to 17 April, annual training courses for representatives of the CSTO member states who do not have the status of military personnel are being held at the CSTO Secretariat.
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.
