On September 1, 2026, CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov and UN Secretary-General António Guterres held a working meeting in Bishkek in the SCO+ format.
On August 31, 2026, on the sidelines of the SCO Summit in Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic, CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov met with CIS Secretary General Sergey Lebedev.
A meeting of the Working Group of the Coordination Council of Heads of Competent Authorities on Combating Illicit Drug Trafficking (CCHN) on organizing international anti-drug operations within the CSTO framework was held in Aktau, Republic of Kazakhstan.
The Open International Youth Sambo Festival of National Teams of the CSTO Member States was held at the International Sambo Center in Moscow.
On August 17–19, at the invitation of Colonel General Alexander Manilov, Chairman of the Coordination Service of the Council of Border Troops Commanders of the CIS, a delegation of the CSTO Joint Staff headed by Colonel General Andrey Serdyukov took part in international events held in the area of responsibility of the Border Directorate of the Russian Federal Security Service for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region.
Contingents of the Central Asian region's Collective Rapid Deployment Forces are heading to the Republic of Tajikistan to participate in the joint training “Rubezh-2022”
10.10.2022
From October 10 to 21, 2022, joint training "Rubezh-2022" with the Collective Rapid Deployment Forces of the Central Asian region is held on the territory of the Republic of Tajikistan.
The subject of the training is "Preparation and conduct of combat operations by the CRDF CAR on destroying illegal armed groups invading the territory of a CSTO member state”.
The active phase of the training will take place at the “Harbmaidon” training range from 17 to 21 October.
Military contingents of the member states of the Central Asian region of the CSTO, task forces of the CSTO Joint Staff and the CSTO Secretariat will take part in the training.
It is planned that the total number of training participants in the Republic of Tajikistan will be about 1,000 people and more than 300 units of military and special equipment, including aircraft, helicopters and strike drones.
The CSTO member states of the Central Asian region of collective security include in national formations (contingents) of the Collective Rapid Deployment Forces military formations, units and subunits of the armed forces and other troops, formations and bodies in which military service is stipulated, equipped with highly mobile military equipment, interoperable weapons and communication systems, as well as combat, logistics and technical support units and groups of civil specialists.
The main tasks of the Collective Rapid Deployment Forces of the Central Asian region of collective security are to participate in repelling external military aggression and conducting joint counterterrorist operations.
These tasks are carried out in the form of general and special combat operations of the Collective Rapid Deployment Forces of the Central Asian region of collective security according to a unified concept and plan.
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Joint press center of the CSTO trainings
