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.
On the sidelines of the OSCE Ministerial Council meeting in Vienna, the CSTO Secretary General, Yuri Khachaturov, met with the OSCE Secretary General, Thomas Greming, on countering contemporary threats and challenges in Eurasia
08.12.2017
At the invitation of the Austrian Chairmanship of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) on a visit to Vienna to attend the 24th meeting of the OSCE Ministerial Council, the CSTO Secretary-General Yuri Khachaturov led the OSCE Ministerial Council on December 7-8 OSCE Secretary, Thomas Greming; Director of the OSCE Conflict Prevention Center, Marcel Peszko; and Head of the Transnational Threats Department (NTEC) of the OSCE Secretariat, Rasa Ostrauskaite.
During the meeting of the Secretaries-General, the third in recent months, the sides exchanged views on issues of mutual interest in the ongoing development of cooperation between the two organizations, reviewed its promising areas, and discussed a number of possible projects. With a significant commonality of approaches, a mutual disposition towards concrete actions and the development of a stable trend towards increasing mutual understanding, primarily on countering contemporary threats and challenges in Eurasia, was stated.
This line in relation to the tasks of preventing and resolving crises considered as priority by the CSTO and the OSCE, increasing the effectiveness of countering international terrorism, determined the course of the conversation between Yuri Khachaturov and Marcel Peszko and the Ostrauskite Race.
