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 a meeting of the CSTO Permanent Council, the Implementation Plan for the Session of the Collective Security Council and the agenda for the upcoming CSSC meeting were considered
31.01.2020
On January 30-31, 2020, chaired by the Permanent and Plenipotentiary Representative of the Russian Federation Andrei Shvedov, a meeting of the Permanent Council of the Collective Security Treaty Organization was held, in which the CSTO Secretary General Stanislav Zas took part.
The draft Action Plan for the implementation of the decisions of the November (2019) session of the Collective Security Council of the Collective Security Treaty Organization and the priorities proposed by the Russian Federation for the period of the chairmanship of the Organization was considered and finalized. The CSTO Permanent Council discussed the draft agenda for the upcoming spring meeting of the Committee of Secretaries of Security Councils. Work on these documents will be continued at the next meeting of the Permanent Council.
The draft Plan for the joint training of command and control forces and means of the Collective Security System of the Collective Security Treaty Organization for 2021 was also considered. It was decided to send the draft document for domestic approval in the prescribed manner.
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The CSTO Press Secretary Vladimir Zaynetdinov
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