85 years ago, the Great Patriotic War began. The war machine of Nazi Germany launched a treacherous attack against Soviet cities and villages and committed unprecedented atrocities against Soviet citizens. The peoples of the Soviet Union rose to defend their common Motherland and paid an enormous price for peace, freedom, and the right to live on their own land.
On June 17–18, 2026, CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov visited sections of the State Border of the Republic of Belarus with Poland and Lithuania.
On June 18, 2026, the 24th Meeting of the Interstate Commission for Military-Economic Cooperation of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (ICMEC CSTO) was held in Minsk on the sidelines of the 3rd International Security Industry Exhibition “National Security. Belarus 2026”. The meeting was chaired by Dmitry Stefanovich, Head of the Belarusian National Section of the ICMEC and Deputy Chairman of the State Authority for Military Industry of the Republic of Belarus.
On June 18, 2026, the 2nd Military-Economic Conference of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, entitled “Development of Cooperation among the Defense Industries (Military-Industrial Complexes) of the CSTO Member States: 20 Years of Practical Cooperation”, was held in Minsk on the sidelines of the 3rd International Security Industry Exhibition “National Security. Belarus 2026”. The event brought together representatives of relevant ministries, agencies, defense enterprises, and other institutions and organizations of the CSTO member states.
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.
