On August 17–19, at the invitation of Colonel General Alexander Manilov, Chairman of the Coordination Service of the Council of Border Troops Commanders of the CIS, a delegation of the CSTO Joint Staff headed by Colonel General Andrey Serdyukov took part in international events held in the area of responsibility of the Border Directorate of the Russian Federal Security Service for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region.
On August 14, consultations were held via videoconference at the CSTO Joint Staff with representatives of relevant ministries and agencies of the CSTO member states on organizing joint training activities for command and control bodies and formations of the CSTO collective security system in 2027.
On July 15, 2026, the High-Level Regional Meeting “Enhancing Capacities to Prevent the Supply of Weapons to Terrorists in Central Asia” was held in Moscow, organized by the United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism with the participation of the Russian side.
On July 14, 2026, a working meeting was held at the CSTO Secretariat between CSTO Deputy Secretary General Valery Semerikov and UN Assistant Secretary-General Alexander Zuev.
A meeting of the CSTO Defense Ministers Council Working Group on the logistical support of the CSTO Collective Forces was held
15.11.2022
On November 15 this year, a meeting of the CSTO Defense Ministers Council Working Group on the logistical support of the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces) was held via videoconferencing.
Under the general supervision of the Chairman of the Working Group - Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, Colonel General Mikhail Mizintsev, the meeting was attended by representatives of the leadership of defense agencies of the Republic of Armenia, the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Republic of Tajikistan, officials from the CSTO Joint Staff and the CSTO Secretariat.
In the course of the meeting the following issues were considered: the status of internal approval of the draft Regulation on Stockpiles of Material Resources for Support of Formations of the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces) and its readiness for consideration by the Council of Defense Ministers and the Committee of the CSTO Secretaries of Security Councils; the status of development and readiness to submit for internal approval the draft Recommendations on the procedure for mutual settlement for transferred material resources between the contingents of the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces), and the creation on the territories of the CSTO member states of the necessary reserves of material resources for the deployment of groups of the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces).
The main areas of cooperation in the field of military science on improving the system of logistical support of the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces), as well as the results of a special trainings with the forces and means of logistical support of the CSTO CRRF "Echelon-2022" held in October 2022 in the territory of the Republic of Kazakhstan, were discussed.
The next meeting of the CSTO Defense Ministers Council Working Group on the issues of logistical support of the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces) is scheduled to take place in the Republic of Belarus in 2023.
