On December 4, at the invitation of the Iranian side, a delegation from the Joint Staff of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, led by Chief of the Joint Staff Colonel General Andrei Serdyukov, took part in the final stage of joint anti-terrorism trainings conducted by the competent authorities of the member states of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization “Sahand-Anti-Terror 2025” in the Islamic Republic of Iran.
The CSTO Deputy Secretary General Valery Semerikov took part in the “BRICS+ 2025 Anti-Terrorism Conference: National and Regional Counter-Terrorism Strategies in the Context of Emerging Challenges and Security Threats”, held in Moscow.
A delegation from the CSTO Secretariat, led by the Deputy Secretary General Taalatbek Masadikov, took part from 1 to 5 December in the VIII Coordination Meeting of High-Level Representatives of the Secretariat of the Collective Security Treaty Organization and the International Committee of the Red Cross (hereinafter referred to as the Coordination Meeting) at the ICRC headquarters in Geneva.
The CSTO reported that dialogue and cooperation with China were on the agenda
16.12.2021"The issue of establishing dialogue and cooperation with the PRC is on the agenda of the CSTO. We believe that interaction should be based on universally recognized principles of international law, in accordance with the goals and principles of the United Nations Charter, as well as the CSTO Charter," he said.
According to Zaynetdinov, the CSTO Secretariat welcomes the statement made by President Xi Jinping of the People's Republic of China during his talks with the Russian President Vladimir Putin on December 15. The Chinese leader expressed Beijing's intention to continue flexible and multifaceted cooperation with Russia and other CSTO countries in order to preserve security and stability in the region.
On December 15, the Russian President Vladimir Putin and the President of the People's Republic of China Xi Jinping had a video conference. Yuri Ushakov, Assistant to the Russian President, told reporters that the conversation between the two heads of state lasted about an hour and a half. According to him, the Russian and Chinese leaders discussed "literally all urgent and important problems" - from security guarantees for Moscow in Europe to the creation of new alliances in the Asia-Pacific region. In addition, Putin and Xi Jinping discussed bilateral relations and future meetings, one of which could take place in February 2022.
