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 meeting of the Committee of Secretaries of the CSTO Security Councils will be held via videoconferencing, which will discuss the challenges and threats to the security of the member states
12.11.2020
On November 17, 2020, a meeting of the Committee of Secretaries of Security Councils of the Collective Security Treaty Organization will be held via videoconferencing. The event will be chaired by the Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Nikolai Patrushev. The meeting will be attended by the Secretaries of the Security Councils of the CSTO member states and the Secretary General of the Organization Stanislav Zas.
The members of the CSSC will discuss the challenges and threats to the security of the CSTO member states and the agenda of the upcoming meeting of the CSTO Collective Security Council.
In the course of the meeting, it is planned to hear the information of the State Secretary - Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of Russia Igor Zubov on the results of the activities of the Coordination Council of the heads of the competent authorities to combat drug trafficking of the CSTO member states, as well as to consider and approve a number of draft Decisions of the CSTO Collective Security Council, which include military and military-technical cooperation, the Peacekeeping Forces and equipping the Collective Rapid Reaction Forces, the CSTO Anti-Drug Strategy and training for the state authorities of the CSTO member states.
It is expected that a Plan for joint training of command and control bodies and formations of the assets of the CSTO Collective Security System for 2021 and a Plan of consultations of representatives of the CSTO member states on foreign policy, security and defense for the second half of 2020 - the first half of 2021 will be signed.
The Collective Security Treaty (CST) was signed on May 15, 1992, in Tashkent. On May 14, 2002, at a session in Moscow, the Collective Security Council adopted a decision to transform the mechanisms and structures of cooperation between the CST member states into an international regional organization – “The Collective Security Treaty Organization”, with an appropriate status. On September 18, 2003, the CSTO Charter entered into force. The Collective Security Treaty Organization includes: the Republic of Armenia, the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Russian Federation, the Republic of Tajikistan.
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