The Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov received the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the CSTO member states and the Secretary General of the Organization in Cholpon-Ata on June 30. The meeting was attended by the Foreign Ministers of Kyrgyzstan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Russia and Tajikistan.
On June 30, 2025, a regular meeting of the CSTO Council of Foreign Ministers was held in Cholpon-Ata (the Kyrgyz Republic) under the chairmanship of the Kyrgyz side, which was attended by the Organization's Secretary General Imangali Tasmagambetov.
Safar Umarzoda, Head of the Department for Countering Challenges and Threats of the CSTO Secretariat, took part in a special event (side-event) on "Countering Radicalization leading to terrorism and Extremism" organized by the Russian Federation on the margins of the OSCE Annual Conference on Security Review, where he reported on the measures taken by the CSTO on countering terrorism and extremism, and willingness to share the experience gained.
On June 19, 2025, in Bosteri, Issyk-Kul region of the Kyrgyz Republic, the XIX meeting of the Council of the Advisory Coordination Center of the Collective Security Treaty Organization on Computer Incident Response (CSTO CCC) was held, which was attended by delegations of representatives of national authorized bodies for responding to computer incidents of the CSTO member states.
On June 24-26, the second staff negotiations were held in the Kyrgyz Republic on the organization and conduct an operational meeting with the Command of the Collective Rapid Deployment Forces of the Central Asian Region (CAR CRDF) and a command and staff training with units of the CAR CRDF "Rubezh-2025", conducted as part of the joint operational and strategic training "Combat Brotherhood-2025".
The heads of the special police units of the CSTO member states and the Rosgvardia allocated to the CSTO Peacekeeping Forces in Yekaterinburg held a training and methodical gathering as part of the exercise “The Indestructible Brotherhood -2018”
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During the gathering, the special unit commanders exchanged experience of participation in international peacekeeping missions, discussed improving the training methods for police units, as well as developing common approaches and views on the use of special police units and Rosgvardia of the CSTO member states as part of the Collective Peacekeeping Forces - combat (operational-service) tasks.
The Deputy Secretary General of the CSTO, Piotr Tsikhanouski, in his speech to the participants of the meeting, noted that such an event was held for the first time. “This is a new page in the history of the CSTO. The composition of the Collective Peacekeeping Forces of the CSTO on the “Indestructible Brotherhood - 2018” exercise includes various units - military, police, Rosgvardiya, and the Ministry of Emergency Situations, as well as observers from international organizations such as the UN International Committee of the Red Cross. Here at the assembly you are the commanding staff of special units. We believe that today it is the main contingent that is primarily in demand in peacekeeping operations conducted under the auspices of the UN Security Council, ”said the Deputy Secretary General of the CSTO.
The military adviser, the UN Assistant Secretary General for Peacekeeping Operations, Lieutenant General Carlos Umberto Loyta (Uruguay), who arrived in the Sverdlovsk region and the city of Yekaterinburg to observe the active phase of the “Indestructible Brotherhood - 2018” exercise, participated in the training camp.
He said that the interaction between the two international organizations - the UN and the CSTO in the field of peacemaking is developing and now requires the development of joint legislative, logistical and operational bases; a “Road Map” has already been prepared. “We are ready to provide expert advice in this direction, based on practical activities. And we are ready to work with the CSTO in various models of partnership in such an important area as peacemaking, ”said Carlos Lloth.
Deputy Secretary General of the CSTO Piotr Tsikhanouski noted that the colleagues from the UN are great specialists in the field of peacekeeping operations, their military and police component and have extensive practical experience. He suggested that the participants in the gathering should not miss the opportunity to get answers from the UN specialists to all their questions.
The interaction of the commanding staff of the special units of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (Police / Rosgvardia) of the CSTO member states and the specialists of the UN peacekeeping operations in the form of a “round table” was the final event of the training and methodological gathering.
A joint exercise with the CSTO “Indestructible Brotherhood-2018” peacekeeping forces takes place in the Sverdlovsk region from October 30 to November 2. The exercise involves military contingents from six CSTO member states, operational teams of the Joint Staff and the CSTO Secretariat, the Rosgvardiya, police (police) forces and Civil Defense and Emergencies.
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