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.
On the meeting of the CSTO Secretary General Imangali Tasmagambetov with the Special Representative of the UN Secretary General for Afghanistan and Head of the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan Roza Otunbayeva
On 8 April 2024, at the CSTO Secretariat, Imangali Tasmagambetov, the Secretary General of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, held a working meeting with Roza Otunbayeva, the Special Representative of the UN Secretary General for Afghanistan and Head of the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA).
The Special Representative of the UN Secretary General has informed about the main directions of international assistance carried out under the UN aegis in the interests of peace and stability in the region and for the reintegration of Afghanistan into the international community, shared her observations on the internal political development of the country.
The CSTO Secretary General stressed that the CSTO member states were in favor of Afghanistan becoming an independent, united and peaceful state, free of terrorism, war and drugs.