On November 10, a discussion session entitled “Indivisible Biological Security in the CSTO Area” was held at the World Trade Center as part of the International Forum on Collective Security.
On November 10, a discussion session entitled “The CSTO: New Challenges and Prospects for Regional Cooperation” was held at the World Trade Center as part of the International Forum on Collective Security.
The traditional 14th Meeting of Senior Administrative Officials of the CSTO, CIS and SCO was held in Moscow on November 10, 2026. It was attended by CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov, CIS Secretary General Sergey Lebedev and SCO Secretary General Nurlan Yermekbayev.
On November 10, 2026, a joint meeting of the CSTO Council of Foreign Ministers, Council of Defence Ministers and Committee of Secretaries of Security Councils was held in Moscow under the chairmanship of the Russian Federation. The meeting was attended by CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov and Chief of the CSTO Joint Staff Colonel General Andrey Serdyukov.
Opening remarks by CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov at the round table “Kazakhstan–Central Asia–Greater Eurasia: resilience and security amid new challenges”
11.09.2026
Dear colleagues,
Good afternoon!
Thank you for taking part in the round table devoted to the constitutional reform carried out in the Republic of Kazakhstan.
The CSTO Secretariat, the Institute of China and Contemporary Asia, together with the Center for Social and Conservative Policy, continue to work jointly on the conceptual analytical report “The CSTO as a space for security and development: prospects for inter-platform cooperation,” which is scheduled to be presented at a working session of the CSTO Secretariat as part of the 4th Minsk International Conference on Eurasian Security in November 2026.
At the previous event held at the CSCP, we discussed the role and place of the CSTO as a collective security institution in the architecture of Greater Eurasia. Today, our focus is on Kazakhstan: the constitutional reform carried out in the country and, as one of its outcomes, the elections to the Kurultai, as well as an issue of paramount importance for the Central Asian region related to ensuring water and energy security.
The purpose of the reform in Kazakhstan is to update the country's legal system and bring it into line with the state's goals and objectives.
Kazakhstan's experience in this area can without exaggeration be called innovative; it is intended to unlock the potential of the state and society and optimize approaches and methods for addressing pressing challenges. This experience may be highly useful for other Eurasian countries, and therefore I look forward to a substantive discussion on this topic.
