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.
The CSTO mission advance team led by Colonel General Anatoly Sidorov arrived in the Republic of Armenia
16.09.2022
In accordance with the decision of the extraordinary meeting of the CSTO Collective Security Council, Colonel General Anatoly Sidorov, the advance team of the monitoring mission led by the CSTO Chief of the Joint Staff, arrived in the Republic of Armenia on September 15, 2022.
Immediately upon arrival in Yerevan, the Defense Minister of the Republic of Armenia Suren Papikyan and Colonel General Sidorov had a working meeting to discuss the situation in certain areas on the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
The mission is charged with formulating proposals for de-escalation of tension.
Measures are planned to study and monitor the current situation in certain border regions, as well as working meetings with the leadership of the Armenian Defense Ministry and the General Staff of the Armed Forces, the Russian Embassy in the Republic of Armenia, the border department of the Russian Federal Security Service in the Republic of Armenia and the command of the 102nd Russian military base.
