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.
In Minsk, the Defense Minister of the Republic of Belarus Viktor Khrenin addressed a meeting of heads of international military cooperation units of the armed forces of the CSTO member states
01.03.2023
March 1, Minsk /BELTA/. BElTA correspondent reports that the Republic of Belarus views the CSTO as a guarantor of international and regional security, This was stated by the Defense Minister Viktor Khrenin during the working meeting of the heads of international military cooperation units of the Armed Forces of the CSTO member states.
As the Minister of Defense noted, the event was attended by those officials who were directly responsible for shaping the external agenda of each of the defense agencies of the CSTO states. "The Republic of Belarus views the Collective Security Treaty Organization as a guarantor of international and regional security, stability, as well as the collective protection of the independence and territorial integrity and sovereignty of the CSTO member states. I am convinced that this event is a unique opportunity to establish closer contacts. In addition, it will make it possible to discuss existing problems both on the internal and external levels and to discuss ways to solve them using the potential of the CSTO," the Minister said.
Viktor Khrenin added that it was equally important to develop common approaches aimed at the development and strengthening of the military component, to create conditions for the organization to become stronger and more united. The Minister of Defense emphasized that the Organization as a whole and the majority of its members had recently faced unprecedented pressure.
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