A working meeting chaired by Lieutenant General Anatoly Yakovlev, Head of the CSTO Troop Deployment Planning Department (Collective Forces), was held with the participation of representatives of the defense ministries of the Republic of Belarus (via videoconferencing), the Russian Federation, and the CSTO Joint Staff.
On 5 March 2026, a working meeting was held at the Secretariat of the Collective Security Treaty Organization between CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov and Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Belarus to the Russian Federation Yuri Seliverstov.
On 4 March, Secretary of the Security Council of the Kyrgyz Republic Adilet Orozbekov presented certificates of advanced training in the field of “Information Security of Automated Systems” to civil servants.
The Protocol amending the Agreement on Cooperation of the CSTO Member States in the Field of Transportation of Military and Other Formations, Their Movable Property, as well as Military Products, and the Protocol amending the Agreement on the Status of Formations of Forces and Means of the CSTO Collective Security System, signed during the session of the CSTO Collective Security Council in Astana on 28 November 2024, have entered into force.
The CSTO Secretariat has received with deep concern reports of the launch of massive strikes by the United States and Israel against the territory of Iran, accompanied, inter alia, by civilian casualties.
The CSTO Deputy Secretary General Samat Ordabaev met with the UN Assistant Secretary General for Europe, Central Asia and the Americas Miroslav Jenča
On 14 August 2023, the CSTO Deputy Secretary General Samat Ordabaev met with the UN Assistant Secretary General for Europe, Central Asia and the Americas Miroslav Jenča at the Secretariat of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation.
During the meeting, the parties discussed a wide range of issues related to cooperation between the United Nations and the CSTO, which is progressively developing based on the provisions of the regular UN General Assembly Resolution adopted in November 2022. The active participation of the CSTO Secretariat in the international discussion on the “New Agenda for Peace”, an initiative of United Nations Secretary General António Guterres ahead of the “Millennium Summit” scheduled for September 2024, was noted with satisfaction.
A thorough exchange of views was held on the security situation in the various CSTO areas of responsibility.
Miroslav Jenča was also briefed on the systematic work being carried out in the CSTO to integrate the collective peacekeeping potential into the work of the United Nations.
The parties expressed readiness for further productive contacts, including during the forthcoming high-level week “on the margins” of the 78th session of the UN General Assembly.