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 meeting of the Coordination Council of the Heads of the Competent Authorities of the CSTO Member States on Combating Illegal Migration was held for the first time via videoconferencing
26.11.2020
On November 26, 2020, at the CSTO Crisis Response Center, the 23rd meeting of the Coordination Council of the Heads of the Competent Authorities of the CSTO Member States on Combating Illegal Migration, chaired by the First Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, Police General-Colonel Alexander Gorovoy, was held for the first time via videoconferencing. A.V. Gorovoy was unanimously re-elected for a new three-year term.
The CSTO Deputy Secretary General Valery Semerikov took part in the meeting of the Coordination Council of the Heads of the Competent Authorities of the CSTO Member States on Combating Illegal Migration. In his welcoming speech, he stressed: “The rapid spread of the coronavirus has changed the usual way of life almost all over the world, and therefore, at the suggestion of the Russian side, today's meeting is being held in a new, unusual format for the Coordination Council - via videoconferencing.
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is one of the most fraught challenges to our states. At the same time, even now we can say with confidence that our states are coping with this difficult period with dignity. "
In addition, V.A. Semerikov suggested in the future, according to the appropriate procedure, within the framework of the Coordination Council of the Heads of the Competent Authorities of the CSTO Member States on Combating Illegal Migration activities, to comprehensively analyze the impact of the pandemic in the migration sphere and develop collective approaches to interaction within the CSTO framework in the field of ensuring migration security in the event of similar situations.
In the course of further work, when discussing the issues on the Agenda, the participants of the meeting emphasized that in the context of a pandemic, the migration situation in the states, despite the difficulties encountered with the stay of foreign citizens, generally remained stable and controlled. The legislative measures adopted in our countries in the migration sphere, in connection with the spread of COVID-19, were timely and had a positive result.
The participants of the meeting of the Coordination Council of the Heads of the Competent Authorities of the CSTO Member States on Combating Illegal Migration positively assessed the results of the work done in the reporting period to control migration processes and counter illegal migration, and also confirmed the need to further unite efforts in order to comprehensively counter illegal migration and stressed the need for the CSTO regional operation “Illegal” in 2021.
Following the meeting of the Coordinating Council, a protocol was signed and a decision was made to hold the next meeting of the Coordination Council of the Heads of the Competent Authorities of the CSTO Member States on Combating Illegal Migration in 2021 in the Republic of Tajikistan, to which the chairmanship of the CSTO passes.
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