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 26th meeting of the Coordination Council of the Heads of Competent Authorities for Countering the Illicit Drug Trafficking of the CSTO Member States
03.12.2024
On 2 December 2024, the 26th meeting of the Coordination Council of the Heads of Competent Authorities for Countering the Illicit Drug Trafficking of the Member States of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (hereinafter referred to as the CSTO CCBCD) was held via videoconferencing.
The meeting was attended by heads of departments and representatives of anti-drug units of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Belarus, Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Kyrgyz Republic, Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, Drug Control Agency under the President of the Republic of Tajikistan, Rosfinmonitoring, Committee of Heads of Law Enforcement Units of the Council of Heads of Customs Services of the CIS member states and the CSTO Secretariat.
At the opening of the Coordination Council meeting, First Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan Alenov B.T. made a welcoming speech, he emphasized the role of the CSTO CCBCD in the development and implementation of a coordinated strategy and joint measures of the anti-drug fight in the CSTO area of responsibility.
Then the floor was given to B.V. Yakovchenko, Secretary of the CSTO CCBCD, Deputy Head of the Main Department for Drug Control of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, who noted that, taking into account the accumulated experience, the need to continue the practice of joint or coordinated anti-drug activities aimed at countering the drug threat.
The CSTO CCDBD format has established a mechanism for international cooperation on a multilateral basis, and mutual understanding and a high level of trust have been achieved between the competent authorities of states and their interested subdivisions.
The CSTO Deputy Secretary General Semerikov V.A. pointed out that in the conditions of rapidly changing military-political and criminal situation in the world, with a steady tendency to their aggravation, there was a difficult situation in the sphere of drug trafficking, both at the global level and in the zone of responsibility of our Organization, the drug problem was in the focus of constant attention of the CSTO Collective Security Council.
The meeting discussed the results of the activities of the Coordination Council of Heads of Competent Authorities for Countering the Illicit Drug Trafficking in 2024, and heard reports from the heads of competent bodies of the anti-drug agencies of the CSTO member states on the work done over the same period, including proposals for developing a consolidated position on cooperation in combating the global drug threat. The agenda included a number of issues related to countering illicit drug trafficking and the functional scope of the CSTO's activities.
After substantive and interested discussions following the reports of the responsible persons on the agenda items, the outcome documents were signed.
