On July 4, 2025, a delegation of the CSTO Secretariat visited the Central Military-Patriotic Park of Culture and Recreation of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation "Patriot".
The Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov received the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the CSTO member states and the Secretary General of the Organization in Cholpon-Ata on June 30. The meeting was attended by the Foreign Ministers of Kyrgyzstan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Russia and Tajikistan.
On June 30, 2025, a regular meeting of the CSTO Council of Foreign Ministers was held in Cholpon-Ata (the Kyrgyz Republic) under the chairmanship of the Kyrgyz side, which was attended by the Organization's Secretary General Imangali Tasmagambetov.
Safar Umarzoda, Head of the Department for Countering Challenges and Threats of the CSTO Secretariat, took part in a special event (side-event) on "Countering Radicalization leading to terrorism and Extremism" organized by the Russian Federation on the margins of the OSCE Annual Conference on Security Review, where he reported on the measures taken by the CSTO on countering terrorism and extremism, and willingness to share the experience gained.
Representatives of defense agencies of the CSTO member states have discussed issues of improving the communication system
24.05.2024
On 23-24 May, the CSTO Joint Staff hosted a working meeting of the heads of the communications management bodies of the defense departments of the CSTO member states. It was attended by representatives of the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Russian Federation, the Republic of Tajikistan, the CSTO Secretariat, the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation, the St. Petersburg State University of Telecommunications named after Professor M.A. Bonch-Bruevich and industry.
Addressing the participants in the working meeting, Colonel General Andrei Serdyukov, Chief of the CSTO Joint Staff, noted in particular that the improvement of the system of interstate information cooperation and the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces) management system, the technical basis of which was the communications system, was regarded in the Organization as one of the most important areas. He also noted that the experience of the peacekeeping operation in the Republic of Kazakhstan and joint operational and combat training activities demonstrated the need to coordinate the efforts of the CSTO member states to improve the CSTO communications system.
The meeting participants have discussed the main results of joint activities in the current year and future directions. Particular attention was paid to the procedure for organizing communications during the joint trainings planned for this autumn in the Kyrgyz Republic, the Republics of Kazakhstan and Tajikistan. Consideration was also given to the use of advanced communications equipment in the contingents of the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces).
The event made it possible to discuss the results of the functioning of the communications system and automated troop control systems and to outline ways of improving the technical basis for the Collective Security Treaty Organization's system of interstate information interaction.
