On June 10, 2026, a regular meeting of the CSTO Council of Foreign Ministers was held in Kazan (Russian Federation) under the chairmanship of the Russian side, with the participation of CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov. CIS Deputy Secretary General Denis Trefilov and SCO Deputy Secretary General Oleg Kopylov were also invited to attend the meeting.
On June 9, 2026, a delegation of the Secretariat of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, headed by CSTO Deputy Secretary General Valery Semerikov, took part in the 19th Meeting of Heads of Lead Counter-Terrorism Units of the Competent Authorities of the CIS Member States and Heads of National Structures Responsible for Coordinating Counter-Terrorism and Counter-Extremism Activities. The event was organized by the Anti-Terrorism Center of the CIS Member States.
A working meeting between CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov and Director of the Institute of China and Contemporary Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences Kirill Babaev was held at the Secretariat of the Collective Security Treaty Organization.
From June 2 to 4, the Republic of Belarus hosted the second staff talks on the organization and conduct of the CSTO Peacekeeping Forces command-and-staff exercise “Indestructible Brotherhood 2026” and the special exercise “Barrier 2026” involving the CSTO Joint CBRN Protection and Medical Support Formation.
The CSTO Coordinating Council of the heads of the anti-drug departments at a meeting in Moscow discussed the drug situation in countries bordering the Organization’s area of responsibility and the problem of expanding drug production in Afghanistan
23.10.2019
On October 23, 2019, in Moscow, under the chairmanship of State Secretary and Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation Igor Zubov, the twenty first meeting of the the Coordination Council of the heads of the competent authorities to combat illicit drug trafficking of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) member states was held.
A delegation of the competent authorities of the CSTO member states took part in the meeting of the Coordination Council of the heads of the competent authorities to combat illicit drug trafficking. During the meeting, the participants of the Coordination Council of the heads of the competent authorities to combat illicit drug trafficking positively assessed the results of the work done in the reporting period and emphasized the need to maintain the established anti-drug course of the CSTO member states.
The parties affirmed the need for further joining of efforts in order to have a comprehensive impact on the drug environment, including striving to reduce drug production and increase the effectiveness of drug use prevention. The importance of continuous monitoring of the drug situation and the results of law enforcement activities was also emphasized.
According to the meeting participants, the growing drug production in Afghanistan remains a significant problem in the CSTO area of responsibility, especially the growth of cultivated areas of opium poppy in the northern provinces bordering directly on the CSTO member states.
The situation is aggravated by the growth in the production and distribution of synthetic drugs of the amphetamine and methamphetamine groups, psychotropic drugs and new dangerous psychoactive substances, a significant part of which comes from Southeast Asia, countries of Eastern Europe and Ukraine.
The meeting heard information on the results of the international anti-drug operation "Canal-Center" (Alma-Ata, the Republic of Kazakhstan), the sub-regional anti-drug operation "Canal-Caucasian Redoubt" (Yerevan, the Republic of Armenia) and the tactical and special trainings "GROM-2019" (Balykchi , the Kyrgyz Republic).
