On July 4, 2025, a delegation of the CSTO Secretariat visited the Central Military-Patriotic Park of Culture and Recreation of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation "Patriot".
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.
Joint training with the CSTO peacekeeping forces "Indestructible Brotherhood-2018" ended in the Sverdlovsk region. According to the plan, a peacekeeping operation was conducted in a conditional state on the "Resolution" of the UN Security Council
04.11.2018In the period from October 30 to November 2, 2018 in the Russian Federation a joint exercise "The Indestructible Brotherhood-2018" was held with the Peacekeeping Forces of the Collective Security Treaty Organization. The topic is “The preparation and conduct of a peacekeeping operation by the Collective Peacekeeping Forces of the CSTO in the Central Asian region in the territory of a non-CSTO member state under the Resolution of the UN Security Council”.
The exercise was conducted at the training ground of the Sverdlovsk Training Center of the Central Military District of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.
At the first stage of the exercise, the peacekeeping operation was prepared by the Collective Peacekeeping Forces of the CSTO. During the second stage of the exercise, practical actions were taken to complete the tasks of the Collective Peacekeeping Forces of the CSTO units in the course of a peacekeeping operation.
The Chief of the Joint Staff of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, Colonel-General Anatoly Sidorov, summing up the final stage of the exercise, said: "I believe that the objectives of the exercise have been successfully achieved. The servicemen and all the personnel who took part in the exercises received good practice, showing high professionalism. The management bodies qualitatively planned the implementation of all the tasks and confidently managed during the maneuvers."
CSTO Deputy Secretary General Piotr Tsikhanouski added that international observers were present at the active phase of the maneuvers.
In turn, the United Nations (UN) delegation commended the peacekeeping operation conducted by the military personnel of the CSTO member states on the “Indestructible Brotherhood 2018” exercise in the Sverdlovsk Region. The Assistant Secretary-General for Military Affairs, Lieutenant-General Carlos Loyat, said:
He added that the exercise had correctly planned the organization of interaction between peacekeepers and the police and the EMERCOM.
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