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 XXII meeting of the CSTO Interstate Commission on Military-Economic Cooperation was held
20.09.2024
The XXII meeting of the Interstate Commission on Military-Economic Cooperation of the Collective Security Treaty Organization was held in Bishkek (the Kyrgyz Republic) on 20 September 2024.
The meeting participants have reviewed the results of the Commission's work on the implementation of the decisions of the XXI ICWEC meeting held in April last year in Dushanbe. Based on the results of the exchange of views, a number of important decisions were adopted on the further development of military-economic cooperation in the CSTO format.
In particular, agreement has been completed on the draft Concept for the development of cooperation and integration ties between enterprises and organizations of the defense-industrial (military-industrial) complexes of the member states. The draft decision of the CSTO Collective Security Council on this issue after it interstate coordination in the CSTO member states will be submitted in accordance with the established procedure by the CSTO Collective Security Council.
Decisions have been taken on the establishment of an interstate system for cataloguing supplies for the armed forces of the CSTO member states and on the mutual protection of rights to the results of intellectual activity obtained and used in the course of military-economic cooperation within the CSTO.
The Commission approved the List of international exhibitions to be held in 2025-2026, at which expositions of military, dual-use and special-purpose products and technologies of the CSTO member states may be formed.
In connection with the forthcoming anniversary of the activities of the CSTO Interstate Commission on Military-Economic Cooperation in June 2025 - the 20th anniversary of its establishment - it was decided to hold in 2025 the CSTO Second Military-Economic Conference with a view to summing up the results of the work over the past period and defining tasks for the further development of military-economic cooperation in the Organization's format.
The Commission's Work Plan for 2025 was also approved.
It was decided to hold the next XXIII ICWEC meeting in September-October 2025 in the Republic of Kazakhstan.
Очередное ХХIII заседание МКВЭС решено провести в сентябре –октябре 2025 года в Республике Казахстан.
