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.
OSCE Secretary General Thomas Greming will visit the CSTO Secretariat for the first time and speak at a meeting of the Permanent Council of the Collective Security Treaty Organization
27.10.2017November 2 this year. The Secretary General of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, Thomas Greming, will visit the Secretariat of the Collective Security Treaty Organization during his visit to the Russian Federation.
He is scheduled to meet with the CSTO Secretary General Yuri Khachaturov and speak at a meeting of the CSTO Permanent Council. During the events, an exchange of views on the situation in the area of responsibility of the CSTO and the OSCE, discussion of ways to enhance the interaction of the Organizations, primarily in the area of countering new threats and challenges, is assumed.
We invite media representatives to highlight the event, which will be held at the CSTO Secretariat at the address: Moscow, Sverchkov Pereulok, 3/2 p.1. Beginning at 11.00. Media representatives pass from 10:00 AM Accreditation till 3:00 PM on November 1, 2017 by e-mail: odkb-pressa@gov.ru.
