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.
CSTO Secretariat experts at the Vienna International Center participate in the 63rd session of the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs, which runs from March 2 to 6
02.03.2020The experts of the CSTO Secretariat at the Vienna International Center are taking part in the 63rd session of the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs, which is held here from March 2 to 6.
At the forum, on the initiative of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and with the assistance of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs, the CSTO Secretariat launched a photo exhibition and organized a presentation reflecting the progress and results of anti-drug activities within the Organization since 2017.
Information is also provided on training for anti-drug services in the basic educational institutions of the CSTO member states - the All-Russian Institute for Advanced Studies of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia and the Siberian Law Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. (Decisions to give this high status were made by the heads of the CSTO member states at the session of the Collective Security Council on June 23, 2006 Minsk and Moscow on December 23, 2014)
The interaction of the two international structures is carried out within the framework of the Protocol on Cooperation between the CSTO Secretariat and the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, signed in Vienna on 04/05/2006.
