On July 15, 2026, the High-Level Regional Meeting “Enhancing Capacities to Prevent the Supply of Weapons to Terrorists in Central Asia” was held in Moscow, organized by the United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism with the participation of the Russian side.
On July 14, 2026, a working meeting was held at the CSTO Secretariat between CSTO Deputy Secretary General Valery Semerikov and UN Assistant Secretary-General Alexander Zuev.
From July 7 to 9, second staff talks were held in the Russian Federation on the organization and conduct of the CSTO Collective Rapid Reaction Forces (CRRF) command-and-staff exercise “Interaction-2026”, the special reconnaissance exercise “Poisk-2026”, and the logistics support exercise “Echelon-2026”.
In accordance with the 2026 Action Plan of the Coordinating Council of Heads of the Competent Authorities for Countering Illicit Drug Trafficking of the CSTO Member States, and as part of the Russian Federation's priorities during its 2026 CSTO Chairmanship, the sub-regional counter-narcotics operation “Kanal – Amber Coast” was conducted from June 29 to July 3, 2026. The operation was aimed at disrupting trafficking routes for narcotic drugs, their precursors and analogues, new psychoactive substances, and potent substances into the CSTO area of responsibility, neutralizing international transnational drug trafficking groups, dismantling clandestine drug production facilities, undermining the economic foundations of the drug trade, including the laundering of drug proceeds.
The CSTO Military Committee discussed the development of the Organization’s military cooperation at a meeting in Almaty
26.10.2018
On October 26, 2018, in the city of Almaty, under the leadership of Lieutenant-General Murat Mayikeev, Chairman of the Military Committee, First Deputy Minister of Defense - Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the 13th meeting of the Military Committee on the development of military cooperation of the States members of the Collective Security Treaty Organization was held (CSTO).
The meeting was attended by the Chiefs of the General Staffs of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Armenia, the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Russian Federation, the Republic of Tajikistan, as well as the First Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Kyrgyz Republic, the Chief of the CSTO Joint Staff Anatoly Sidorov and Deputy Secretary General Piotr Tsikhanouski.
Colonel-General Anatoly Sidorov, in his speech, informed the members of the Military Committee about the implementation of the main directions of the development of military cooperation of the CSTO member states and measures for their timely implementation. The order of work on the organization of air defense in the Central Asian region of the collective security of the CSTO was determined.
“In the course of work on the creation of a unified air defense system in the Central Asian region, it is necessary to work out the organizational, technical and legal aspects of combining the efforts of air defense forces and means of the four CSTO member states of the region, organizing management, comprehensive support, and joint training Colonel Anatoly Sidorov. “According to experts, this will increase the overall effectiveness of the combined air defense group by almost a third.”
During the meeting, a constructive exchange of views on the situation related to the situation in the regions of collective security also took place.
As a result, a number of agreements were reached aimed at strengthening the collective security of the CSTO member states.
__________________________________________CSTO spokesman Vladimir Zainetdinov
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