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 took part in the round table "CSTO: Landmarks for Strategic Development" and a meeting of its participants with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergei Lavrov
07.10.2020
On October 7, this year, the CSTO Secretary General Stanislav Zas took part in the round table "CSTO: Landmarks for Strategic Development" held by the Russian Foreign Ministry as part of the “CSTO Days”, as well as in a meeting of its participants with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. In the course of the discussion, S.V. Zas informed about the efforts undertaken by the CSTO Secretariat to assist in the development of allied cooperation in all areas of the Organization's activities, including coordination in the field of foreign policy, military and military-technical cooperation, joint counteraction to new challenges and threats.
