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 had a meeting with the Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu in Moscow
20.02.2023
On February 20 this year, the CSTO Secretary General Imangali Tasmagambetov met with the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, Army General Sergei Shoigu. They have discussed topical issues concerning the development of the military component of the Organization and the improvement of its force potential.
The meeting was held in the building of the Russian Ministry of Defense on Frunzenskaya Naberezhnaya in Moscow.
Imangali Tasmagambetov has informed Sergei Shoigu about the results of his recent visit to Minsk, where at a meeting with the Chairman of the Collective Security Council, the President of the Republic of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, the Action Plan was approved to implement decisions of the November (2022) session of the CSTO and fulfill the priority areas of the CSTO during the period of the Republic of Belarus presidency, which included a large section on the development of cooperation in the military and military-technical sphere.
"The Belarusian priorities are aimed at improving the readiness of the components of the Collective Security Treaty Organization to fulfill their tasks and strengthen the military and technical cooperation between the CSTO member states; they fully correspond to the current military and political situation and reflect the most urgent and promising directions of development of the military component of the Organization," the CSTO Secretary General stressed.
He informed the Russian Minister of Defense that in 2023 the Plan of joint training of formations of forces and means of the collective security system provided for a number of major trainings of the Collective Forces in the Republic of Belarus. "In September, the "Interaction-2023" training with the Collective Rapid Reaction Forces, a special training with the forces and means of intelligence "Search-2023" and "Echelon-2023" training with logistical support units are planned. The work on improvement of the management system of the Collective Forces is actively going on, in particular, in the field of communication," the CSTO Secretary General noted. He also added that it was proposed to hold a training with the CSTO Peacekeeping Forces "Indestructible Brotherhood-2023" on the territory of the Kyrgyz Republic.
In turn, Sergei Shoigu congratulated Imangali Tasmagambetov on his appointment as the CSTO Secretary General. "I want to congratulate You immediately on your appointment to this important and responsible post, on which much depends in our Organization. I hope that Your vast experience as a statesman and now on an interstate level, considering Your experience, including that as Minister of Defense, where you have done much for the development of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Kazakhstan, will serve to further strengthen the authority of the CSTO both on the international scene and within each of the member states of the Organization," the Russian military minister said.
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