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.”
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.”
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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