A meeting of the Working Group of the Coordination Council of Heads of Competent Authorities on Combating Illicit Drug Trafficking (CCHN) on organizing international anti-drug operations within the CSTO framework was held in Aktau, Republic of Kazakhstan.
The Open International Youth Sambo Festival of National Teams of the CSTO Member States was held at the International Sambo Center in Moscow.
On August 17–19, at the invitation of Colonel General Alexander Manilov, Chairman of the Coordination Service of the Council of Border Troops Commanders of the CIS, a delegation of the CSTO Joint Staff headed by Colonel General Andrey Serdyukov took part in international events held in the area of responsibility of the Border Directorate of the Russian Federal Security Service for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region.
On August 14, consultations were held via videoconference at the CSTO Joint Staff with representatives of relevant ministries and agencies of the CSTO member states on organizing joint training activities for command and control bodies and formations of the CSTO collective security system in 2027.
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
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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