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.
The 12th Southern Information Security Forum “Infoforum Sochi 2026” is taking place in Sochi, Russia, from June 30 to July 3. On July 1, the Forum's plenary session brought together representatives of federal and regional authorities, regulatory bodies, leading companies, and international organizations to discuss current challenges in the protection of critical infrastructure, the development of artificial intelligence, and international cooperation.
At the meeting of the CSTO Permanent Council, a draft agenda of the upcoming May meeting of the Council of Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Organization was made up
12.04.2019
April 11th of this year,a meeting of the Permanent Council of the Collective Security Treaty Organization was held under the chairmanship of Aman Mambetseitov, the Permanent and Plenipotentiary Representative of the Kyrgyz Republic, in which Valery Semerikov, the acting Secretary General of the CSTO, took part.
The draft agenda of the meeting of the Council of Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, scheduled for May 22, 2019 in Bishkek was reviewed and formed. It was decided to send the document for approval by the Chairman of the CSTO CFM to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kyrgyz Republic.
The Permanent Council considered the draft Decision of the CSTO Collective Security Council providing for amendments to the Regulations on the Organization’s Council of Ministers of Defense, as well as draft decisions of the Council of Ministers of Defense and the Committee of Secretaries of the CSTO Security Councils concerning the joint preparation of the governing bodies and forces and means of the collective security system of the Collective Security Treaty in 2019-2020 years. It was decided to send these documents to the statutory bodies of the CSTO.
The question of the participation of the consolidated unit of the armed forces of the member states of the Collective Security Treaty Organization in the military parade dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War was also considered. The draft decision of the CSTO Council of Ministers of Defense is in internal coordination.
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