A meeting of the Working Group of the Coordination Council of Heads of Competent Authorities on Combating Illicit Drug Trafficking (CCHN) on organizing international anti-drug operations within the CSTO framework was held in Aktau, Republic of Kazakhstan.
The Open International Youth Sambo Festival of National Teams of the CSTO Member States was held at the International Sambo Center in Moscow.
On August 17–19, at the invitation of Colonel General Alexander Manilov, Chairman of the Coordination Service of the Council of Border Troops Commanders of the CIS, a delegation of the CSTO Joint Staff headed by Colonel General Andrey Serdyukov took part in international events held in the area of responsibility of the Border Directorate of the Russian Federal Security Service for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region.
On August 14, consultations were held via videoconference at the CSTO Joint Staff with representatives of relevant ministries and agencies of the CSTO member states on organizing joint training activities for command and control bodies and formations of the CSTO collective security system in 2027.
The CSTO Acting Secretary General Valery Semerikov will take part at the plenary session of the Forum for Security Cooperation of the OSCE
15.07.2019On July 17, this year, the CSTO Acting Secretary General Valery Semerikov will be the keynote speaker at the plenary session of the Forum for Security Cooperation of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe on the theme “The CSTO activities in support of OSCE commitments to ensure military-political aspects of security”.
The upcoming meeting is initiated by the currently chairing the Forum of the Republic of Tajikistan, which motivated its invitation to the keynote speaker that “the CSTO plays a crucial role in maintaining close cooperation and understanding in the military-political field in its region of responsibility”.
The meeting will be held in Vienna at the Hofburg Palace.
The Forum for Security Cooperation (FSC) was established in 1992 by the decision of the Helsinki meeting of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe. It is an independent OSCE body with the authority to discuss military-political issues, including disarmament, arms control, confidence-building measures and take politically binding decisions on them. The Forum meets in Vienna weekly at the level of state representatives.
