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 12th Southern Information Security Forum “Infoforum Sochi 2026” is taking place in Sochi, Russia, from June 30 to July 3. On July 1, the Forum's plenary session brought together representatives of federal and regional authorities, regulatory bodies, leading companies, and international organizations to discuss current challenges in the protection of critical infrastructure, the development of artificial intelligence, and international cooperation.
On June 30 – July 1, 2026, Saint Petersburg hosted a series of events chaired by Alexander Kurenkov, Minister of the Russian Federation for Civil Defence, Emergencies and Elimination of Consequences of Natural Disasters, with the participation of heads of the competent authorities of the CSTO member states responsible for emergency prevention and response.
The CSTO Acting Secretary General Valery Semerikov will attend the 12th plenary session of the CSTO Parliamentary Assembly in Yerevan on November 5
01.11.2019On November 5, 2019, visiting meetings of the Council and the XII plenary session of the CSTO Parliamentary Assembly will be held in Yerevan. At the invitation of the Chairman of the Parliamentary Assembly, Vyacheslav Volodin, the CSTO Acting Secretary General Valery Semerikov will take part and make a report on the topic: “The situation in the CSTO area of responsibility and the tasks of the organization in modern conditions”.
The meetings will consider the results of the chairmanship of the Kyrgyz Republic in the CSTO in 2019, the work on the implementation of the standards of model laws and recommendations adopted by the Parliamentary Assembly in 2017 in the national legislation of the CSTO member states, as well as the progress in the preparation of the draft CSTO Parliamentary Assembly program of work on rapprochement and harmonization of the legislation of the CSTO member states for 2021-2025 and other issues.
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