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.
Representatives of the defense departments of the CSTO member states discussed the Plan for joint training of management bodies and formations of forces and means of the collective security system for 2021
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The event was held under the overall leadership of the First Deputy Chief of the CSTO Joint Staff, Lieutenant General Khasan Kaloev. Representatives of the defense departments of the Republic of Armenia, the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Russian Federation, the Republic of Tajikistan, the Secretariat and the Joint Staff of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, as well as the Coordination Service of the Council of Commanders of the Border Troops of the Commonwealth of Independent States took part in it.
“The main purpose of the consultations is to discuss proposals and comments received on the draft plan from the defense departments of the CSTO member states, and to finalize its content,” said Lieutenant General Hassan Kaloev, opening the event.
During the meeting, taking into account the proposals of the representatives of the defense departments of the CSTO member states, measures were discussed aimed at improving the readiness of the forces and means of the CSTO collective security system to fulfill their intended tasks. The dates, venue, composition of the involved governing bodies and formations, as well as those responsible for carrying out the planned activities of joint operational and combat training for 2021, were agreed.
The CSTO Joint Staff will send the agreed draft document to the CSTO Permanent Council for consideration for a decision on its further direction to the member states of the Organization for internal approval.
