Delegation of the CSTO Secretariat headed by the Deputy Secretary General of the Organization will take part in the 13th international meeting of high representatives in charge of security issues.
On May 13, 2025, the 41st meeting of the Working Group on Afghanistan under the CSTO Ministerial Council was held with the participation of CSTO Deputy Secretary General Samat Ordabaev. The event was also attended by delegations of the Organization's member states and representatives of the UNOCT, the UNRCCA, the CIS ATC, the CIS Coordination Service of the CIS Council of Commanders of Border Troops and the ICRC.
Today, in Moscow's Red Square, parade dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 was attended by ceremonial regiments of the armed forces of the CSTO member states.
Officers, non-commissioned officers and soldiers of military contingents from the armed forces of the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic and the Republic of Tajikistan marched through the main square of the Russian Federation in single formation with the Russian by ceremonial regiments. The sequence of their march was determined by alphabetical order.
On April 25, 2025 in the Academy of Management of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia took place a solemn graduation of representatives of the senior staff of law enforcement agencies and services of the CSTO member states: the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Russian Federation, the Republic of Tajikistan, who improved their qualification in the form of specialized training on the topic “Training of personnel and leading specialists for law enforcement agencies and services of the CSTO member states”.
28 April is the Day of Establishment of the Joint Staff of the Collective Security Treaty Organization. We recall that on 28 April 2003. in the city of Dushanbe, the Collective Security Council, guided by the need to establish a military staff body responsible for the implementation of the tasks of the military component of the Collective Security Treaty, adopted a decision on the establishment of the Joint Staff of the Collective Security Treaty Organization.
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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