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.
At the first in 2021 meeting of the CSTO Permanent Council, a document on measures to strengthen cooperation of the Collective Security Treaty Organization with the CIS and the SCO was considered
14.01.2021On January 14, this year, under the chairmanship of the Permanent Representative of the Republic of Tajikistan Hasan Sultonov, the first in 2021 meeting of the Permanent Council of the Collective Security Treaty Organization was held by videoconferencing. The CSTO Secretary General Stanislav Zas took part in the meeting.
In the course of the meeting, a Statement by the member states of the Collective Security Treaty Organization on efforts to stabilize the situation in the Middle East and North Africa was agreed. It was decided to send the document for consideration by the foreign ministers of the CSTO member states.
The Permanent Council also considered and finalized the draft Decision of the Collective Security Council of the Collective Security Treaty Organization on Measures to Strengthen Cooperation between the CSTO, the CIS and the SCO. Work on the document will continue at subsequent meetings of the Permanent Council.
Consideration was continued of a number of important political statements of the CSTO member states, which relate to the coordination of efforts in the fight against terrorism using new and emerging technologies, the prohibition of the development and production of new types of weapons of mass destruction and new systems of such weapons, and on ensuring comprehensive stability in the world.
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