On November 11, 2026, a session of the CSTO Collective Security Council was held under the chairmanship of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
On November 11, 2026, a meeting was held at the Kremlin between CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov and President of the Russian Federation and Chairman of the CSTO Collective Security Council Vladimir Putin.
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.
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.
