28.04.2026

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

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.”

SOYUZ publication: Mr.Zas discussed in Armenia strengthening of the CSTO military component

28.02.2020
https://rg.ru/2020/02/27/zas-obsudil-v-armenii-ukreplenie-voennoj-sostavliaiushchej-odkb.html

Issues of further development of the military component of the CSTO and international security became the central topics of the meeting on February 27 of the organization’s Secretary General Stanislav Zas with the Armenian Defense Minister David Tonoyan, the CSTO press secretary Vladimir Zaynetdinov said.

 Фото: Пресс-служба ОДКБ


During a working visit to Yerevan, he said, Mr.Zas touched upon such topics as “developing the CSTO crisis response system, increasing the potential of the collective rapid reaction forces and the CSTO peacekeeping forces, joint combat training activities, as well as the implementation of joint events dedicated to the 75th anniversary Victory in the Great Patriotic War. "

The CSTO Secretary General also held talks with the Secretary of the Security Council of Armenia Armen Grigoryan, at which "issues of increasing the effectiveness of the joint fight against terrorism and the fight against illicit trafficking in drugs and psychotropic substances were discussed," Mr.Zaynetdinov informed.

The issue of settlement in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone was also affected in the Armenian capital. Stanislav Zas once again confirmed the position of the CSTO, stating that "there is no alternative to a peaceful settlement of the conflict." Armen Grigoryan, in turn, presented the situation on the contact line between the armed forces of Armenia and Azerbaijan, emphasizing the need to resolve the Karabakh issue exclusively by peaceful means, noting the importance of the CSTO’s position in this.

The CSTO Secretary General also presented the programs planned and already being implemented in the organization, including the preparation of anti-terrorism and military trainings.



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