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 Imangali Tasmagambetov and the Executive Secretary of the CSTO Parliamentary Assembly Sergey Pospelov have discussed cooperation in the parliamentary sphere in 2023
16.01.2023
On January 16 this year, the Secretary General of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, Imangali Tasmagambetov, held a meeting with the Executive Secretary of the CSTO Parliamentary Assembly, Sergey Pospelov.
This is the first meeting of the newly inaugurated Secretary General of the Organization I.Tasmagambetov with the Executive Secretary of the CSTO Parliamentary Assembly. The parties have discussed joint activities for 2023 and interaction between the CSTO Secretariat and the CSTO PA Secretariat this year in accordance with the previously approved Plan. Sergey Pospelov informed Imangali Tasmagambetov about the work on implementation of the program on rapprochement and harmonization of the national legislation of the CSTO PA states for 2021-2025.
It was agreed that the plans of the CSTO Secretariat and the Parliamentary Assembly for 2023 and 2024 would be coordinated.
They stressed the importance of cooperation in the parliamentary dimension and the ongoing work on the ratification of the documents adopted in the CSTO format and increasing the effectiveness of interaction between the secretariats of the Organization and the CSTO PA.
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The CSTO Press Secretary Vladimir Zaynetdinov
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