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.
On June 19, 2025, in Bosteri, Issyk-Kul region of the Kyrgyz Republic, the XIX meeting of the Council of the Advisory Coordination Center of the Collective Security Treaty Organization on Computer Incident Response (CSTO CCC) was held, which was attended by delegations of representatives of national authorized bodies for responding to computer incidents of the CSTO member states.
On June 24-26, the second staff negotiations were held in the Kyrgyz Republic on the organization and conduct an operational meeting with the Command of the Collective Rapid Deployment Forces of the Central Asian Region (CAR CRDF) and a command and staff training with units of the CAR CRDF "Rubezh-2025", conducted as part of the joint operational and strategic training "Combat Brotherhood-2025".
The XXII meeting of the Coordination Council of the Heads of the Competent Authorities for Countering the Illicit Drug Trafficking of the CSTO member states was held via videoconferencing
20.11.2020
On November 20, 2020, under the supervision of the State Secretary - Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation Igor Zubov, the XXII meeting of the Coordination Council of the Heads of the Competent Authorities for Countering the Illicit Drug Trafficking the Collective Security Treaty Organization member states was held via videoconferencing.
The meeting was attended by representatives of the competent authorities of the Republic of Armenia, the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Russian Federation and the Republic of Tajikistan, as well as the Deputy Secretary General of the Collective Security Treaty Organization Valery Semerikov.
The participants in the Coordination Council of the Heads of the Competent Authorities for Countering the Illicit Drug Trafficking meeting positively assessed the results of the work done in the reporting period, heard information on the implementation of the Anti-Drug Strategy of the CSTO member states for 2015-2020 and stressed the need to maintain the established anti-drug course of the CSTO member states.
As part of the implementation of the priorities of the Russian Federation during its chairmanship in the CSTO, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, together with the CSTO Secretariat, based on the existing experience, a draft of a new Anti-Drug Strategy for 2021-2025 was developed, taking into account the peculiarities of modern challenges and threats posed by illegal drug trafficking.
The strategy is planned to be submitted to the session of the CSTO Collective Security Council in December this year.
The members of the Coordination Council of the Heads of the Competent Authorities for Countering the Illicit Drug Trafficking confirmed the need to further unite efforts in order to comprehensively influence the drug environment, including striving to reduce drug production and increase the effectiveness of drug use prevention.
