A working meeting between CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov and Vasily Khristoforov, Director of the Institute of International Relations and Political Sciences of the Russian State University for the Humanities (RSUH) and Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, was held at the Secretariat of the Collective Security Treaty Organization.
On June 12, 2026, a conference entitled “Central Asia – the Core of the SCO: A Space of Peace and Shared Development” was held in Dushanbe under the auspices of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Tajikistan. Acting CSTO Deputy Secretary General Samat Ordabayev took part in the event.
On June 10, 2026, a regular meeting of the CSTO Council of Foreign Ministers was held in Kazan (Russian Federation) under the chairmanship of the Russian side, with the participation of CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov. CIS Deputy Secretary General Denis Trefilov and SCO Deputy Secretary General Oleg Kopylov were also invited to attend the meeting.
On June 9, 2026, a delegation of the Secretariat of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, headed by CSTO Deputy Secretary General Valery Semerikov, took part in the 19th Meeting of Heads of Lead Counter-Terrorism Units of the Competent Authorities of the CIS Member States and Heads of National Structures Responsible for Coordinating Counter-Terrorism and Counter-Extremism Activities. The event was organized by the Anti-Terrorism Center of the CIS Member States.
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.
