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 concerned ministries and agencies of the CSTO member States have discussed issues of improving the Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics of the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces)
01.07.2022Consultations aimed at the development of the CSTO military component on the issues of Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics of the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces) were held via videoconferencing on July 1, this year.
Representatives of interested ministries and agencies of the CSTO member States, officials from the Joint Staff and the CSTO Secretariat took part in the consultations under the general supervision of Lieutenant General Anatoly Yakovlev, Head of the CSTO Military (Collective Forces) Use Planning Department - Deputy Head of the CSTO Military (Collective Forces) Use and Train Planning Center.
Consultations’ participants paid special attention to the report of Major General Almaz Akhmadiev, Head of Logistics of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Kazakhstan, on the organization of Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics for the CSTO Collective Peacekeeping Forces during the peacekeeping operation in the Republic of Kazakhstan, as well as the approval of the draft Regulation on Material Reserves to support the formations of the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces).
In the course of consultations, the draft Agenda of the next meeting of the CSTO Defense Ministerial Council Working Group on the Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics of the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces), which is planned for the autumn of 2022, was also agreed.
