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 Secretary General Stanislav Zas will take part in a joint meeting of the CIS, the SCO and the CSTO Defense Ministers on September 4
03.09.2020
On September 4, this year, a joint meeting of the defense ministers of the Commonwealth of Independent States, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and the Collective Security Treaty Organization member states will take place at the congress center of the “Patriot” Park in Kubinka near Moscow. The CSTO Secretary General Stanislav Zas will take part in the meeting.
The heads of the defense departments will discuss issues of international and regional security, consolidation of efforts to prevent the threat of unleashing wars and armed conflicts, and further strengthening of military cooperation in modern conditions. Stanislav Zas will speak to the participants of the joint meeting.
A joint Statement is expected to be adopted on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the Great Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 and the World War II.
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