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 12th Southern Information Security Forum “Infoforum Sochi 2026” is taking place in Sochi, Russia, from June 30 to July 3. On July 1, the Forum's plenary session brought together representatives of federal and regional authorities, regulatory bodies, leading companies, and international organizations to discuss current challenges in the protection of critical infrastructure, the development of artificial intelligence, and international cooperation.
A meeting of the Working Group on Military-Economic Cooperation under the Chairman of the CSTO Interstate Commission on Military-Economic Cooperation was held on 17-18 April 2024
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The meeting was held in the city of Moscow under the chairmanship of Viktor Zinoviev, Secretary of the CSTO Interstate Commission on Military-Economic Cooperation (ICMEC, Commission).
The meeting participants have reviewed the implementation of the decisions of the XXI ICMEC meeting held in April 2023 in Dushanbe of the Republic of Tajikistan, as well as discussed the range of issues to be submitted to the XXII meeting of the Commission in September this year in the Kyrgyz Republic.
An important result of the work was the finalization of draft documents on the development of multilateral cooperation between enterprises and organizations of the defense-industrial (military-industrial) complexes of CSTO member states, the conduct of research and development work within the framework of the CSTO, and issues of mutual protection of rights to the results of intellectual activity obtained and used in the course of military-economic cooperation in the CSTO format.
The possibility of organizing the training of engineering and technical personnel for defense enterprises of CSTO member states has also been considered, on the basis of which appropriate proposals have been drawn up for consideration within the framework of the CSTO Intestate Commission on Military-Economic Cooperation in order to organize such work on a systematic basis.
As a result of the discussion of the issues on the Agenda of the meeting, it was deemed necessary to continue to coordinate the draft documents on the establishment of an interstate system for cataloguing supplies for the armed forces of CSTO member states.
In addition, the draft Work Plan of the Commission for 2025 was agreed upon.
