From June 2 to 4, the Republic of Belarus hosted the second staff talks on the organization and conduct of the CSTO Peacekeeping Forces command-and-staff exercise “Indestructible Brotherhood 2026” and the special exercise “Barrier 2026” involving the CSTO Joint CBRN Protection and Medical Support Formation.
On June 3, 2026, a regular meeting of the CSTO Council of Defense Ministers (CDM) was held at the Patriot Central Park of the Russian Ministry of Defense under the chairmanship of the Russian side. The meeting was attended by CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov and Chief of the CSTO Joint Staff Andrey Serdyukov.
From June 1 to 3, Saratov (Russian Federation) is hosting a series of events involving the member states of the Collective Security Treaty Organization aimed at strengthening the collective response system to biological threats.
On June 1, 2026, consultations at the deputy foreign minister level of the CSTO member states were held in Moscow.
On May 28, 2026, CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov took part in the International Security Forum held under the auspices of the Security Council of the Russian Federation. More than 150 delegations from 120 countries participated in the event.
TASS: The CSTO Acting Secretary General called for the creation of rules of conduct under the UN auspices in the information space. Collective efforts in the area of information security should be joined, Valery Semerikov said.
18.07.2019VIENNA, July 17. /TASS/. The Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) considers it necessary to join efforts in the area of information security in order to promptly develop, under the UN auspices, rules and standards of conduct in the information space. This was announced on Wednesday by the CSTO Acting Secretary General Valery Semerikov. On the OSCE Forum for Security Cooperation he made a statement on “The CSTO activities in support of the OSCE commitments to ensure politico-military aspects of security”.
“We consider it necessary to join collective efforts in the area of information security. We attach particular importance to the promotion of the development and early adoption of universal rules, standards and principles of responsible conduct in the information space under the UN auspices,” Semerikov said.
He also informed that the CSTO is working on the formation of a Single list of organizations recognized as terrorist in the territory of their member states. The draft “Plan of collective actions of the CSTO member states in implementing the UN Global anti-terrorism strategy for 2019-2021” is undergoing the established procedure for approval by the CSTO supreme governing bodies.
"We consider it important to step up the OSCE efforts to counter new transnational and transboundary challenges and threats, especially terrorism based on the "Code of Conduct for a Peace Free of Terrorism ", which was initiated by the Republic of Kazakhstan at the opening of the 73rd session of the UN General Assembly and which participants are already 82 states ," noted the CSTO Acting Secretary General .
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