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.
Acting Secretary General of the CSTO Valery Semerikov will take part in the OSCE Anti-Terrorism Conference in Bratislava
22.03.2019
The theme of the annual event being the current Slovak OSCE Chairmanship made the “Review of efforts to prevent and counter terrorism, as well as violent extremism and radicalization, leading to terrorism in the OSCE region”. The meeting will be attended by representatives of diplomatic and security agencies of the OSCE member states and specialized structures of a number of international organizations.
This direction is one of the priorities in the CSTO activities. Its representatives are actively participating in international conferences on counter-terrorism. In 2018, the heads of the CSTO Secretariat delegations made statements at UN conferences (in New York), SCO (in Tashkent), as well as those that took place in the Organization's member states - in Russia, Belarus and Tajikistan.
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