On 3-5 June, the Republic of Belarus hosted the second staff talks on the organization and conduct of the joint trainings with the CSTO Collective Rapid Reaction Forces (CRRF) “Interaction-2025”, special trainings with intelligence forces and means “Search-2025” and logistics “Echelon-2025” conducted as part of the joint operational-strategic training “Combat Brotherhood-2025”.
The CSTO Secretary General I.N. Tasmagambetov met with Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People's Republic of China to the Russian Federation Zhang Hanhui
On 27-30 May, in the city of St. Petersburg, on the basis of the Mikhailovsky Military Artillery Academy, a training and methodological meeting was held with the heads of the CSTO basic training and research organizations to coordinate joint training of military personnel and scientific work.
On 28 May 2025 in Bishkek, Chairman of the CSTO Collective Security Council, President of the Kyrgyz Republic Sadyr Japarov received the participants of the meeting of the Council of Defense Ministers of the Organization, held with the participation of CSTO Secretary General Imangali Tasmagambetov and Chief of the CSTO Joint Staff Colonel General Andrei Serdyukov.
On May 28, 2025, a regular meeting of the CSTO Council of Defense Ministers was held in Bishkek under the chairmanship of the Kyrgyz side. The event was attended by Secretary General Imangali Tasmagambetov and Colonel General Andrei Serdyukov, Chief of the Organization's Joint Staff.
On April 27 and 29, in Dushanbe, meetings of the Council of Defense Ministers and the Committee of Secretaries Security Councils of the CSTO will be held in person
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The CMD and the CSSC will discuss challenges and threats to security in the area of responsibility of the Organization
The issues of military security, countering challenges and threats and measures to neutralize them will be discussed at meetings of the Council of Defense Ministers and the Committee of Secretaries of Security Councils of the CSTO . The meetings will be held in person in Dushanbe.
The CMD meeting will be held on April 27, 2021 under the chairmanship of the Minister of Defense of the Republic of Tajikistan, Colonel-General Sherali Mirzo. Nasrullo Mahmudzoda, the Secretary of the Security Council of the Republic of Tajikistan, will chair the CSSC meeting on April 29, this year.
The CSTO Secretary General Stanislav ZAS will take part in the events and will provide information on the situation in the area of responsibility of the Organization and on the issues on the agenda.
In the course of the meetings, plans will be considered for equipping the Collective Rapid Reaction Force (CRRF), joint training of formations of the assets of the collective security system and the Plan of consultations on foreign policy, defense and security for the second half of 2021 - the first half of 2022.
Also on the agenda of the CMD and CSSC meetings is the consideration of the Action Plan dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the signing of the Collective Security Treaty and the 20th anniversary of the CSTO establishment.
Before the start of the CMD and the CSSC meetings, the Defense Ministers and Secretaries of the Security Councils are expected to be received by the Chairman of the CSTO Collective Security Council, President of the Republic of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon.
The Collective Security Treaty (CST) was signed on May 15, 1992 in Tashkent. On May 14, 2002, the Collective Security Council at a session in Moscow decided to transform the mechanisms and cooperation structures of the CST member states into an international regional organization - the “Collective Security Treaty Organization”, giving it an appropriate status. On September 18, 2003 the CSTO Charter entered into force. The Collective Security Treaty Organization includes: the Republic of Armenia, the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Russian Federation, and the Republic of Tajikistan, chairing the Organization in 2021.
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