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.
On signing the "Joint Position of the SCO RATS, the CIS ATC and the CSTO Secretariat on Combating Terrorism and Extremism”
14.02.2022
On February 16, this year, the Secretariat of the Collective Security Treaty Organization will host a trilateral meeting of the CSTO Secretary General Stanislav Zas, the Head of the CIS ATC Evgeny Sysoev and the Director of the SCO RATS Executive Committee Ruslan Mirzaev.
In the course of the meeting, the sides will discuss topical issues of cooperation in combating terrorism and extremism and strengthening cooperation between the working bodies of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, the Commonwealth of Independent States and the Collective Security Treaty Organization.
The meeting will result in the signing of the "Joint Position of the Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, the Anti-Terrorist Center of the Member States of the Commonwealth of Independent States and the Secretariat of the Collective Security Treaty Organization on Combating Terrorism and Extremism”.
The event will take place in the Secretariat of the Collective Security Treaty Organization at the address: Moscow, Sverchkov pereulok 3/2, building 1. Start time: 11.30 a.m.
Media representatives can participate in the coverage of the event with prior accreditation.
Accreditation of mass media is available till February 15, 2022 by e-mail odkb-pressa@gov.ru и i.steperenkova@odkb-csto.org, phone +7-621-31-09 - Irina Petrovna Steperenkova, consultant of the Information and Public Relations Department.
Admission of media representatives is from 11.00 a.m.
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The CSTO Press Secretary Vladimir Zaynetdinov
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