Delegation of the CSTO Secretariat headed by the Deputy Secretary General of the Organization will take part in the 13th international meeting of high representatives in charge of security issues.
On May 13, 2025, the 41st meeting of the Working Group on Afghanistan under the CSTO Ministerial Council was held with the participation of CSTO Deputy Secretary General Samat Ordabaev. The event was also attended by delegations of the Organization's member states and representatives of the UNOCT, the UNRCCA, the CIS ATC, the CIS Coordination Service of the CIS Council of Commanders of Border Troops and the ICRC.
Today, in Moscow's Red Square, parade dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 was attended by ceremonial regiments of the armed forces of the CSTO member states.
Officers, non-commissioned officers and soldiers of military contingents from the armed forces of the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic and the Republic of Tajikistan marched through the main square of the Russian Federation in single formation with the Russian by ceremonial regiments. The sequence of their march was determined by alphabetical order.
On April 25, 2025 in the Academy of Management of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia took place a solemn graduation of representatives of the senior staff of law enforcement agencies and services of the CSTO member states: the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Russian Federation, the Republic of Tajikistan, who improved their qualification in the form of specialized training on the topic “Training of personnel and leading specialists for law enforcement agencies and services of the CSTO member states”.
28 April is the Day of Establishment of the Joint Staff of the Collective Security Treaty Organization. We recall that on 28 April 2003. in the city of Dushanbe, the Collective Security Council, guided by the need to establish a military staff body responsible for the implementation of the tasks of the military component of the Collective Security Treaty, adopted a decision on the establishment of the Joint Staff of the Collective Security Treaty Organization.
BelTA news agency: - Stanislav Zas said that the pandemic degraded the level of international cooperation in the field of security
18.11.2020
Stanislav Zas. Photo from the archive
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November 18, Moscow / Eduard Pivovar - BelTA news agency/. The problems caused by the COVID-19 pandemic have degraded the level of international security cooperation. The CSTO spokesman Vladimir Zaynetdinov told BelTA news agency that the CSTO Secretary General Stanislav Zas stated this today at a meeting of the Secretaries of the Security Councils of the CIS member states, which took place via videoconferencing.
Stanislav Zas stated that the world community was experiencing a critical shortage of trust and stability.
“And this is one of the main characteristics of our time, - he said. This is taking place in the context of an intensification of the struggle for world resources and markets, the dismantling of the international arms control system that has developed in recent decades, the devaluation of international law and generally recognized norms. As a result, we are witnessing the growth of armed conflicts, massive illegal actions, manifestations of terrorism”.
Stanislav Zas drew the attention that the dynamics of the development of the situation in the CSTO collective security region determined the need for the constant development of mechanisms of interstate interaction in the direction of countering modern challenges and threats." The problems caused by the pandemic, which degraded the level of international cooperation in the field of security, ultimately affected the effectiveness of measures to counter modern challenges and threats, incl. terrorism, - he said. The deterioration of the economic sphere and the fall the living standards of millions of citizens around the planet due to quarantine measures during the period of coronavirus infection create additional opportunities to recruit new members for criminal and terrorist organizations, using various modern information and communication technologies.”
The CSTO Secretary General stressed that the blurring of the lines between physical space and virtual reality, the expansion of the use of the “artificial intelligence” technology led to the emergence of new cyber threats affecting the state of protection of the population, society and the state." In his opinion, at the same time, the transfer of public administration, business and private life to the digital sphere in the context of a pandemic caused a noticeable increase in crime in the field of information and communication technologies.
Stanislav Zas supported the idea of synchronizing anti-terrorist measures implemented in the CIS, the CSTO and the SCO format, expressed by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergey Lavrov at the meeting of the CSTO Ministerial Council in May, 2020. “Now we are collecting proposals on the practical content of this process,” the CSTO Secretary General said.
Summing up, Stanislav Zas said that in the current conditions, the activities of the CSTO were focused on improving the mechanisms for ensuring collective security, taking into account modern realities and projected prospects for the development of the international situation. He expressed confidence that the next meeting of the Secretaries of the CIS Security Councils would make a significant contribution to solving the problems of strengthening security in the Eurasian region.
