On October 30, 2024, the CSTO Secretary General Imangali Tasmagambetov met with Belarusian Foreign Minister Maxim Ryzhenkov in Minsk. The CSTO Secretary General arrived in Minsk to participate in the II Minsk International Conference on Eurasian Security.
The subregional anti-drug operation “Kanal-Avangard” was carried out in the territory of CSTO member states in order to suppress the flow of drugs, their precursors and analogues and new psychoactive and potent substances into the CSTO region of responsibility, to neutralize international transnational drug groups and to eliminate clandestine drug production and undermine the economic foundations of the drug business, including the legalization of drug profits.
The Statement by Nikol Pashinyan, the Chairman of the CSTO Collective Security Council - Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia
In connection with the appeal of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev and in view of the threat to national security and sovereignty of the Republic of Kazakhstan caused, among other things, by aggression from outside, the CSTO Collective Security Council in accordance with Article 4 of the Collective Security Treaty decided to send the CSTO Collective Peacekeeping Forces to the Republic of Kazakhstan for a limited period of time in order to stabilize and normalize the situation in that country.
Nikol Pashinyan
Chairman of the CSTO Collective Security Council,
Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia