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 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.
The results of operations on combating crime in the field of information technology "PROXY"
25.02.2019The meeting was opened by the Acting Secretary General of the CSTO Valery Semerikov, who in his speech highlighted the results of interaction of experts and representatives of the national headquarters of the operation "PROXI" in two directions. “The first direction is to promote the initiatives of the Russian side as co-authors of the Russian draft resolution“ Achievements in the field of informatization, telecommunications in the context of international security ”at the 71st session of the UN General Assembly and the draft UN Convention on cooperation in the field of countering information crime at the 72nd session of the UN General Assembly. The second direction is the successful interaction of all CSTO members in solving the tasks of countering security threats in the information sphere, both at the national level and throughout the Organization, ”said Valery Semerikov.
During the meeting, the results of coordinated preventive measures to combat crime in the field of information technologies, conducted in the format of the Organization under the code name Operation PROXI-2018, were summarized and the priorities for cooperation in 2019 were determined.
The meeting participants exchanged views on improving cooperation in countering information crime in the information space of the CSTO member states and exchanging information on measures to counter the use of information technologies in the interests of international terrorist organizations.
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