On 10 November 2026, in Moscow, the Secretary General of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, Nurlan Yermekbayev, took part in the International Collective Security Forum.
The event brought together delegations from the CSTO member states, six other international organisations, and representatives of the diplomatic corps from around 100 countries. More than ten plenary sessions and parallel discussion sessions were held at the venue.
The opening ceremony was attended by Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Alexei Overchuk, who read out a welcoming message from President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin to the Forum's guests, as well as CSTO Secretary-General Taalatbek Masadykov.
The plenary session "Collective Security in a Multipolar World" was attended by Minister of Foreign Affairs of Belarus Maxim Ryzhenkov, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan Mukhtar Tileuberdi, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kyrgyzstan Zheenbek Kulubaev, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia Sergey Lavrov, and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Tajikistan Sirojiddin Muhriddin.
In his address at the plenary session "Global Challenges of the 21st Century and the Transformation of Collective Security Mechanisms," the SCO Secretary General noted that Russia and Belarus's proposal to develop a Eurasian Charter of Diversity and Multipolarity in the XXI Century is currently being carefully studied. SCO member states work on a coordinated approach to this initiative.
Particular emphasis was placed on the importance of the SCO's interaction with the CSTO and the CIS on the basis of the trilateral "road map" approved in September 2025 in Beijing. It was stressed that the SCO, the CSTO and the CIS possess significant potential for developing ties: exchanging expert assessments, countering transnational risks and challenges, and expanding professional contacts between relevant structures. Nurlan Yermekbayev expressed confidence that such cooperation would contribute to the formation of a space of equal and indivisible security in Eurasia.