On May 7, the CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov held a working meeting in Moscow at the CSTO Joint Staff aimed at improving issues related to crisis response and expert cooperation.
On May 6, 2026, a meeting was held at the CSTO Secretariat between the CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykovand newly appointed Permanent and Plenipotentiary Representative of the Republic of Belarus to the CSTO Vladimir Bespaly.
28 April marks the Day of the CSTO Joint Staff. It should be recalled that on 28 April 2003, in Dushanbe, the Collective Security Council, guided by the need to establish a military staff body responsible for implementing the military component of the Collective Security Treaty, adopted the Decision “On the Establishment of the Joint Staff of the Collective Security Treaty Organization.”
Treaties optimizing transportation within the CSTO framework have entered into force
03.03.2026
The Protocol amending the Agreement on Cooperation of the CSTO Member States in the Field of Transportation of Military and Other Formations, Their Movable Property, as well as Military Products, and the Protocol amending the Agreement on the Status of Formations of Forces and Means of the CSTO Collective Security System, signed during the session of the CSTO Collective Security Council in Astana on 28 November 2024, have entered into force.
The implementation of the provisions of these documents will make it possible to increase the level of efficiency in organizing and carrying out transportation within the CSTO framework when the CSTO troops (Collective Forces) perform their assigned tasks, as well as to improve the legal regulation of issues related to transportation support, including during joint exercises and snap inspections.
The international treaties have been ratified by the Republic of Belarus, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Russian Federation, and the Republic of Tajikistan and, in accordance with established procedures, entered into force for these states on 2 March 2026.
