On 23–24 April 2026, a meeting of the Working Group on Military-Economic Cooperation under the Chairman of the CSTO Interstate Commission on Military-Economic Cooperation was held
On 20 April 2026, a meeting of the Council of the CSTO Parliamentary Assembly was held in Moscow under the chairmanship of the Russian side. During the meeting, CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov delivered a report entitled “On the progress in implementing the decisions of the November (2025) session of the CSTO Collective Security Council and measures taken to counter challenges and threats to collective security.”
On 17 April 2026, a working meeting was held at the CSTO Secretariat between Acting CSTO Deputy Secretary General Samat Ordabaev and the UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Central Asia, Head of the United Nations Regional Centre for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia (UNRCCA), Kaha Imnadze.
On 17 April 2026, the 17th meeting of the Working Group under the CSTO Committee of Secretaries of Security Councils on information security was held in Moscow, with the participation of delegations of representatives of national coordinating and competent authorities on information security, as well as experts and specialists from relevant national structures and agencies of the Organization’s member states.
On 16 April 2026, the 21st meeting of the Council of the CSTO Consultative Coordination Center for Computer Incident Response (CCC CSTO) was held in Moscow, with the participation of delegations of representatives of national competent authorities for computer incident response of the Organization’s member states, as well as a delegation of the CSTO Secretariat headed by Umarzoda Umar Safar, Head of the Countering Challenges and Threats Department of the CSTO Secretariat.
The CSTO Deputy Secretary General Samat Ordabaev took part in the UN Secretariat consultations
28.04.2023
On April 28, 2023, the CSTO Deputy Secretary General Samat Ordabaev took part in consultations organized by the UN Secretariat with the heads of several regional organizations cooperating with the UN as part of the high-level interactive dialogue on the UN Secretary General António Guterres' "New Agenda for Peace" initiative.
The consultations were chaired by the UN Deputy Secretary General for Political Affairs and Peacebuilding Rosemary A. DiCarlo. The UN Deputy Secretary General for Peacekeeping Operations Jean-Pierre Lacroix, the heads of the UN Counter-Terrorism Office and the UNODA participated in the consultations.
In his speech, Samat Ordabaev supported the UN Secretary General's thesis, outlined in "New Agenda for Peace," about the importance of reducing strategic security risks through preventive regional activities and emphasized that strengthening cooperation between the CSTO and the UN could be a good tool for updating the current international agenda in general and, in particular, for strengthening the role and authority of the UN Security Council.
Participants of consultations were reminded that our Organization, established in 2002, was an observer at the UN General Assembly since 2004, every two years the UN GA adopted a resolution "On Cooperation between the UN and the CSTO”. We were also delighted to note the high assessment of the CSTO performance voiced in the Resolution adopted at the 77th Session of the UN GA (November 21, 2022), which particularly noted that "since the signing of the Collective Security Treaty, the CSTO has transformed into a multifunctional structure with the capability to respond adequately to a wide range of challenges and threats in its area of responsibility”. The positive role of the CSTO in maintaining regional security has been repeatedly noted in a number of open debates in the UN Security Council on the topic of cooperation.
The existing experience of interaction between the CSTO and specialized UN structures has formed a solid foundation for the future. In the long term, the participation of the CSTO Collective Peacekeeping Forces in the UN peacekeeping operations appears to be one of its most important areas. This and other areas of contacts will be developed on the basis of joint Declaration on Cooperation between the CSTO and the UN Secretariat dated March 18, 2010, and existing Memoranda and Protocols on Interaction between the CSTO and the UN in different spheres.
It was stressed that the CSTO was aimed at effective implementation in its area of responsibility the tasks of maintaining international peace and security, combating new challenges and threats and preventive diplomacy, and was ready to contribute to the relevant wider efforts of the UN - the main international partner of the CSTO.
