On July 4, 2025, a delegation of the CSTO Secretariat visited the Central Military-Patriotic Park of Culture and Recreation of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation "Patriot".
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.
The ratification procedure of documents on the Status of the CSTO Observer and Partner designation and the Protocols on amendments to the fundamental documents of the CSTO has been completed
20.01.2021The ratification procedure of four Protocols on amendments to the Collective Security Treaty document, the CSTO Charter and the Agreement on the Legal Status of the Collective Security Treaty Organization has been completed by all CSTO member states:
- The Second Protocol on Amendments to the Collective Security Treaty of May 15, 1992;
- The Second Protocol on Amendments to the Agreement on the Legal Status of the Collective Security Treaty Organization of October 7, 2002;
- The Second and the Third Protocols on Amendments to the CSTO Charter.
These documents were signed on November 8, 2018, in Astana (now - Nur-Sultan) and they provide, in particular, regulatory and legal changes regarding the composition of the Collective Security Council and the legal status of the CSTO Deputy Secretaries General.
In order to further develop cooperation with states that are not members of the Organization and international organizations, the Third Protocol on Amendments to the Charter of the Collective Security Treaty Organization establishes the legal basis for granting the statuses of the Observer to the CSTO and the Partner of the Organization.
The protocols shall enter into force on January 19, 2021.
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The CSTO Press Secretary Vladimir Zaynetdinov
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