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.
At the Permanent Council of the CSTO, the Russian side provided information on the violation by Ukraine of the rules of peaceful passage in the territorial sea of the Russian Federation
27.11.2018November 27th of this year. A meeting of the Permanent Council of the Collective Security Treaty Organization was held under the chairmanship of Aman Mambetseitov, Permanent and Plenipotentiary Representative of the Kyrgyz Republic, in which Valery Semerikov, acting Secretary General of the CSTO, took part.
The draft statements “On the Non-Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction in the Context of the Implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1540” and “On Measures to Increase Mutual Confidence aimed at achieving peace goals and maintaining a global security architecture” were reviewed, finalized and agreed. It was decided to send these documents in the prescribed manner for consideration in the format of permanent representatives of the CSTO member states at the UN and subsequent distribution.
The representative of Russia, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, Andrei Shvedov, informed the CSTO Permanent Council about the situation in connection with the gross violation of the rules of peaceful passage in the territorial sea of the Russian Federation in the Black Sea on November 25, 2018.
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