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 the meeting of CSTO Secretary General Imangali Tasmagambetov with the Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov
08.02.2024
On 7 February, the CSTO Secretary General Imangali Tasmagambetov met with the Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.
They discussed topical issues of the Organization's activities, the progress in implementing the decisions of the session of the Collective Security Council held in Minsk on 23 November 2023, as well as preparations for the upcoming CSTO Ministerial Council meeting in June this year.
Much attention was paid to the issues of integrating the CSTO's collective peacekeeping potential into the UN peacekeeping activities, the current results of the implementation of the Special Interstate Policy for strengthening sections of the Tajik-Afghan Border, as well as the demarcation and delimitation of the State border between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.
At the end of the meeting, Imangali Tasmagambetov presented awards to the Russian Foreign Ministry officials of the Collective Security Treaty Organization.
For his significant contribution to strengthening inter-parliamentary cooperation in the CSTO format, Sergey Lavrov awarded a badge of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation "For Interaction" Sergey Pospelov, the Executive Secretary of the CSTO Parliamentary Assembly and Head of the Secretariat of the CSTO Parliamentary Assembly.
