On September 23 this year, CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov took part in a working meeting of the Council of Ministers of the CSTO member states in New York, chaired by the Russian Federation.
On September 23 this year, CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov held a meeting with Acting UN Under-Secretary-General for Counter-Terrorism Alexander Zuev.
On September 23 this year, CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov met with UN Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations Jean-Pierre Lacroix.
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.
Representatives of defense agencies of the CSTO member states have discussed issues of improving the communication system
15.11.2024
On 13-14 November, a working meeting of the heads of the defense communications management bodies of the CSTO member states took place at the National Defense University of the Republic of Kazakhstan in the city of Astana. Delegations from the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Russian Federation, the Republic of Tajikistan, the CSTO Joint Staff and the CSTO Secretariat, as well as industry representatives from the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Russian Federation took part.
Colonel-General Andrei Serdyukov, Chief of the CSTO Joint Staff, addressing the participants of the working meeting via videoconferencing, noted in particular that in the current conditions joint efforts were needed aimed at forming common views and approaches in the development of the communications system, as well as at adopting decisions at the interstate level that contribute to improving the system of control of coalition groups of troops in the interests of ensuring national and collective security.
“Taking into account the experience of the joint trainings conducted, targeted work in this area at the Joint Staff has been organized and is being carried out in close cooperation with the defense agencies of the CSTO member states. Its main goal is to further improve the communication system of the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces),” Colonel General Andrei Serdyukov, Chief of the CSTO Joint Staff, said.
The meeting participants have discussed the main areas of development of the organizational and technical integration of communications forces and means, options for organizing communications and data transmission using modern telecommunications means, and issues relating to the interfacing of communications equipment and means of communication. Particular attention was paid to the use in the contingents of CSTO Troops (Collective Forces) of promising communications equipment providing fundamentally new capabilities.
In the course of the working meeting, the results of the functioning of the communications system and automated troop control systems were examined, and ways of improving the technical basis for the Collective Security Treaty Organization's system of interstate information interaction were identified.
