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.
On June 15, the CSTO Secretary General Stanislav Zas will take part in meeting of the Council of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Collective Security Treaty Organization in videoconference mode
10.06.2020
On June 15, 2020, meeting of the Council of the CSTO Parliamentary Assembly will be held in videoconference mode. Stanislav Zas, Secretary General of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, will take part in this meeting.
In the course of the meeting of the Council, the draft program of the Parliamentary Assembly on the approximation and harmonization of the national legislation of the CSTO member states for 2021-2025 will be considered. Participants of the event will also discuss the experience of the parliaments of the countries that are members of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) in legislative support of the measures that were taken in the situation of the COVID-19 spread, and issues of interaction in the new conditions.
Stanislav Zas will inform the CSTO Parliament Assembly Council on the situation in the Organization’s area of responsibility, on measures to counter the challenges and threats to collective security, and on the ratification of international treaties concluded under the CSTO.
The meeting will be chaired by the Speaker of the State Duma of the Russian Federation Vyacheslav Volodin.
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CSTO Press Secretary Vladimir Zaynetdinov
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