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 Secretary General and the Head of the CIS ATC have discussed cooperation in countering terrorism and extremism
02.02.2022
On February 2, this year, the CSTO Secretary General Stanislav Zas and the new head of the Commonwealth of Independent States' Anti-Terrorism Center, Evgeny Sysoyev, met in Moscow. The meeting was also attended by the Deputy Secretary General Valery Semerikov, the First Deputy Head of the CIS ATC - representative of the Council of Ministers of Internal Affairs of the CIS member States Zhanat Saypoldayev, the Deputy Head of the CIS ATC - representative of the Council of Defense Ministers of the CIS member States Pavel Tikhonov, and the Deputy Head of the CIS ATC - representative of the Council of Border Guard Troops Commander Aibek Kutmanov.
During the meeting the parties exchanged views on tendencies and condition of operational situation in the zones of responsibility of organizations and discussed practical cooperation of the CSTO with the CIS ATC in the sphere of combating terrorism and extremism.
The CSTO Secretary General and the Head of the CIS ATC stressed the importance of consolidating joint efforts in the face of growing terrorist threats and expressed interest in expanding bilateral cooperation.
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