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 CSTO delegation takes part in the Joint UN-OSCE Conference on Antiterrorism in Vienna
12.02.2020
On February 11-12, 2020, Vienna hosted the Joint High-Level Regional Conference “Foreign Militant Terrorists (FMT): Responding to Modern Challenges”.
The event was held jointly by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), the UN Counter-Terrorism Directorate and Switzerland in cooperation with the current Albanian Chairmanship of the OSCE. The conference was the next stage in a series of regional meetings in the development of decisions convened for the first time by the UN Secretary-General in June 2018 in New York at a high-level United Nations conference with the participation of heads of counter-terrorism agencies of Member States.
At the invitation of the organizers, a delegation of the CSTO Secretariat, led by the head of the Office for Countering Challenges and Threats, Murad Kunakbaev, took part in the Joint Conference in the Austrian capital. His speech at the forum was dedicated to the topic of preventing and preventing the movement of information security services in the context of the Statement made by the heads of the CSTO member states at the meeting of the Collective Security Treaty Organization in November 2018 on coordinated measures against international terrorist organizations against participants in armed conflicts.
A report by M. Kunakbaev, in which he referred, in particular, to the results of the first special operation under the collective security treaty organization format in 2019 under the code name “Mercenary” ("Naemnik"), the purpose of which was to block the channels of recruitment, entry of citizens of CSTO member states or their departure abroad to participate in armed conflicts on the side of international terrorist organizations, as well as the neutralization of their resource base, aroused the interest of the participants in the Vienna meeting.
Speaking at the close of the event, OSCE Secretary-General Thomas Greminger and UN Under-Secretary-General, head of KTU Vladimir Voronkov said that its results would be summarized by the co-chairs and presented to the Second High-level United Nations Conference with the participation of heads of counter-terrorism agencies of the member states, which will be held in New York July 1-2, 2020
The exchange of views of the professionals participating in the Joint Conference - representatives of national anti-terrorist structures and specialized anti-terrorism units of the UN and regional organizations, experts with practical experience was useful for solving the task of forming a broad anti-terrorism front with the central coordinating role of the United Nations.
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The CSTO Press Secretary Vladimir Zaynetdinov
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