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29.04.2026

STATEMENT by the Member States of the Collective Security Treaty Organization at the 2026 Review Conference of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons

28.04.2026

23rd anniversary of the establishment of the CSTO Joint Staff

28 April marks the Day of the CSTO Joint Staff. It should be recalled that on 28 April 2003, in Dushanbe, the Collective Security Council, guided by the need to establish a military staff body responsible for implementing the military component of the Collective Security Treaty, adopted the Decision “On the Establishment of the Joint Staff of the Collective Security Treaty Organization.”

27.04.2026

The presentation of the Eurasian Analytical Platform was held at the CSTO Conference at MGIMO University of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia

On 27 April 2026, within the framework of the International Scientific and Practical Conference “Contours of a New Architecture of Collective Security: Current Issues of Information and Analytical Partnership within the CSTO,” held at MGIMO University of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, a round table entitled “Eurasian Analytical Platform: New Approaches in a New Geopolitical Reality” took place. During the event, Head of the Information and Public Relations Department of the CSTO Secretariat Yuriy Shuvalov delivered a presentation on “The Eurasian Analytical Network: A New Cognitive Architecture of Collective Security.”

27.04.2026

Statement by the CSTO Secretary General at the opening of the International Scientific and Practical Conference “Contours of a New Architecture of Collective Security: Current Issues of Information and Analytical Partnership within the CSTO”

27.04.2026

Address of the International Conference “Contours of a New Architecture of Collective Security” to the expert community of the CSTO, CIS and SCO member states

Arguments and Facts: The Cabinet of Ministers of the Russian Federation approved the ratification of the second CSTO protocol

02.09.2019

The corresponding bill draft is planned to be submitted to the State Duma

Natalya Seliverstova / RIA Novosti

Moscow, August 31 - Arguments and Facts-Moscow. The Government of the Russian Federation approved the ratification of the second protocol between the Cabinet of Ministers and the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), the cabinet website reported.

The document provides amendments to the collective security agreement on the conditions for the presence of the organization's secretariat in the Russian Federation. In the future, the relevant bill draft will be submitted to the State Duma in the appropriate manner.

СAccording to the provisions of the protocol, the Secretary General of the organization, his deputies and their families will be granted privileges and immunity, which are supposed by the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations of April 18, 1961 for a diplomatic agent.

The protocol also introduces the definition of the “deputy secretary general” term.

The CSTO includes the Republic of Armenia, the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Russia and the Republic of Tajikistan.

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