The Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov received the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the CSTO member states and the Secretary General of the Organization in Cholpon-Ata on June 30. The meeting was attended by the Foreign Ministers of Kyrgyzstan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Russia and Tajikistan.
On June 30, 2025, a regular meeting of the CSTO Council of Foreign Ministers was held in Cholpon-Ata (the Kyrgyz Republic) under the chairmanship of the Kyrgyz side, which was attended by the Organization's Secretary General Imangali Tasmagambetov.
Safar Umarzoda, Head of the Department for Countering Challenges and Threats of the CSTO Secretariat, took part in a special event (side-event) on "Countering Radicalization leading to terrorism and Extremism" organized by the Russian Federation on the margins of the OSCE Annual Conference on Security Review, where he reported on the measures taken by the CSTO on countering terrorism and extremism, and willingness to share the experience gained.
On June 19, 2025, in Bosteri, Issyk-Kul region of the Kyrgyz Republic, the XIX meeting of the Council of the Advisory Coordination Center of the Collective Security Treaty Organization on Computer Incident Response (CSTO CCC) was held, which was attended by delegations of representatives of national authorized bodies for responding to computer incidents of the CSTO member states.
On June 24-26, the second staff negotiations were held in the Kyrgyz Republic on the organization and conduct an operational meeting with the Command of the Collective Rapid Deployment Forces of the Central Asian Region (CAR CRDF) and a command and staff training with units of the CAR CRDF "Rubezh-2025", conducted as part of the joint operational and strategic training "Combat Brotherhood-2025".
Preliminary results of the sub-regional anti-drug operation "Channel-Second Barrier" are summarized
27.05.2022In order to implement the proposals made at the Special meeting of the Collective Security Council of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) of 23.08.2021, to combat the transit of drugs from Afghanistan along the "Northern route", eliminate the drug raw materials base, close drug smuggling channels, suppress the activities of transnational drug gangs, underground laboratories, undermine the economic basis of drug trafficking, including the legalization of drug proceeds, reveal facts of financing terrorism and terrorist organizations from drug trafficking, as well as the seizure of weapons, ammunition and explosives from illicit trafficking, a sub-regional anti-drug operation "Channel-Second Barrier" was conducted from 23 to 27 May 2022 in the format of the CSTO.
During this period, the Kyrgyz Ministry of Internal Affairs deployed an International Coordination Staff (ICS) in Osh city, which was attended by representatives of competent authorities of the CSTO member States and observers from the UNODC, the SCO Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure, the OSCE, the sectoral cooperation bodies of customs services and internal affairs bodies of the CIS member States, Eurasian Group on Combating Money Laundering and Financing of Terrorism.
The ICS conducted an in-depth analysis of the drug situation in the CSTO member States, ensured coordination between national staffs and the rapid exchange of relevant information.
Officers from the competent authorities of the CSTO member States, seconded to the ICS, and observers carried out practical visits to the Jalal-Abad and Batken regions to familiarize themselves with the work of mobile groups and temporary checkpoints set up as part of the Operation "Channel-Second Barrier" in the most dangerous areas where drug trafficking takes place.
The security of officers on duty against drug trafficking was provided by the "Shumkar" special operations regiment of the Kyrgyz Ministry of Internal Affairs, which is part of the special operations forces of the CSTO Collective Rapid Reaction Forces.
Participants of the ICS and representatives of law enforcement agencies of the Kyrgyz Republic exchanged experience in identifying new methods of concealing drugs in cargo and vehicles, routes of illegal logistics of controlled drugs, new methods of counteraction to the spread of drugs, the use of sniffer dogs and special equipment.
In the course of the operation, the controlled delivery method was actively used to uncover all the details of the drug smugglers' illegal activities.
The law enforcement agencies of the CSTO member States implemented comprehensive measures to prevent drug traffickers from using modern information communication technologies in the interests of the drug business.
On May 27 this year, in Osh city, with the participation of Ulanbek Sultanov, Chief of the Service for Combating Illicit Drug Trafficking of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Kyrgyz Republic, a meeting of the ISC was held to summarize the preliminary results of the joint (coordinated) actions to implement the concept of operation " Channel -Second Barrier".
More than 11 thousand officers and servicemen of the bodies of internal affairs, drug control, special services and customs were involved in the operation,
They seized from the illegal turnover:
- 274 kg of narcotic drugs, psychotropic and potent substances, including more than 5 kg of heroin, about 70 kg of marijuana and 75 kg of hashish;
- more than 86 kg of synthetic drugs such as alpha-PVP, mephedrone, methamphetamine and others;
- more than two tons of precursors;
- 51 firearms and 2,836 pieces of ammunition, including hand grenades.
Three "underground" drug laboratories were identified and eliminated. 389 criminal cases related to illegal drug trafficking were initiated, including against 28 criminal drug groups, in 21 cases related to drug smuggling. 50 persons wanted for committing crimes in the field of drug trafficking were detected. 306 web-sites, through which illegal information on drugs was disseminated, were detected.
The measures taken have had a significant preventive effect.
On the basis of the experience gained during the sub-regional operation "Channel - Second Barrier", in order to strengthen collective security, the next active stages of the CSTO Regional Anti-Drug Operation "Channel" will already be planned and carried out this year for the benefit of all peoples of the CSTO member States.
