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.
On June 30 – July 1, 2026, Saint Petersburg hosted a series of events chaired by Alexander Kurenkov, Minister of the Russian Federation for Civil Defence, Emergencies and Elimination of Consequences of Natural Disasters, with the participation of heads of the competent authorities of the CSTO member states responsible for emergency prevention and response.
From June 24 to 26, 2026, CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov paid a working visit to the Republic of Tajikistan at the personal invitation of President Emomali Rahmon.
The CSTO Secretariat held a meeting of the Acting Secretary General of the CSTO Valery Semerikov with the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Tajikistan to the Russian Federation
11.03.2019On March 11, 2019, Valery Semerikov, Acting Secretary General of the CSTO, met with the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Tajikistan to the Russian Federation Imomuddin Sattorov at the CSTO Secretariat.
During the meeting, issues relevant to Tajikistan were discussed, in particular, measures aimed at reducing tensions in the Tajik-Afghan border area, implementing the decision of the Collective Security Council to strengthen the border with Afghanistan, the development and coordination of the Target interstate program to strengthen the Tajik-Afghan border in the CSTO format . A separate topic of the meeting was the discussion of the issue of combating terrorism and extremism.
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Tajikistan to the Russian Federation I.Sattorov handed over an official invitation to Acting Secretary General of the CSTO V.Semerikov to attend the high-level conference on the theme “International and regional cooperation in the fight against terrorism and its sources of financing, including drug trafficking and organized crime ”, which will be held May 16-17, 2019 in the city of Dushanbe, Tajikistan.
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