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 Stanislav Zas had a meeting with the Foreign Minister of the Republic of Kazakhstan Mukhtar Tleuberdi in Nur-Sultan
12.01.2022
On January 12, this year, in Nur-Sultan, the Deputy Prime Minister - Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan Mukhtar Tleuberdi met with of the Collective Security Treaty Organization Secretary General Stanislav Zas who arrived with a working visit to the Republic of Kazakhstan.
During the negotiations there was a detailed exchange of views on the situation in the Republic of Kazakhstan and the results of the January 10 extraordinary session of the CSTO Collective Security Council.
Mukhtar Tleuberdi has informed Stanislav Zas about normalization of situation in the country and restoration of constitutional order, as well as about the contents of speech of President Tokayev on January 11, this year, in the Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
Kazakhstan expressed its gratitude to the Collective Security Treaty Organization for conducting the peacekeeping operation. "The CSTO peacekeeping contingent has fulfilled its mandate and is completing its mission in our country," the Foreign Minister of the Republic of Kazakhstan said.
In turn, Stanislav Zas has informed about the work carried out in the CSTO format to help resolve the situation in the Republic of Kazakhstan and expressed hope for the soonest elimination of the consequences of illegal actions of terrorist, extremist and criminal elements.
The sides expressed their readiness for further cooperation.
