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.
Russian representative Andrei Shvedov was elected Chairman of the CSTO Permanent Council
03.12.2019
On December 3, 2019, a meeting of the Permanent Council of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, chaired by the Permanent and Plenipotentiary Representative of the Kyrgyz Republic Aman Mambetseyitov, was held. The CSTO Acting Secretary General Valery Semerikov took part in the meeting.
They discussed the preparations for the working meeting of the Foreign Ministers of the CSTO member states, which will be held on December 5, 2019 on the sidelines of the OSCE Ministerial Council in Bratislava.
In connection with the transfer of the chairmanship of the CSTO in 2019-2020 to the Russian Federation, the Permanent and Plenipotentiary Representative of Russia to the CSTO, Ambassador-at-Large of the Russian Foreign Ministry Andrei Vladimirovich Shvedov was elected Chairman of the Permanent Council. The plenipotentiary representative of Kyrgyzstan handed him a wooden hammer, symbolizing the adoption of decisions by the CSTO Permanent Council. Aman Mambetseyitov was thanked for the fruitful and constructive work as Chairman of the Permanent Council of the Organization in 2018-2019.
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The CSTO Press Secretary Vladimir Zaynetdinov
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