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 have discussed the Plan of joint training of command bodies and formations of forces and means of the CSTO collective security system for 2024 and activities until 2030
16.12.2022
On December 13-14, on the basis of the Collective Security Treaty Organization Joint Staff, consultations of representatives of concerned ministries and agencies of the member states of the Organization to consider documents of joint training of command bodies and formations of the forces and means of collective security system were held via videoconferencing.
Representatives of concerned ministries and agencies of the Republic of Armenia, the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Russian Federation, the Republic of Tajikistan, as well as the CSTO Secretariat and the CSTO Joint Staff took part in the consultations.
The meeting has discussed measures aimed at increasing the readiness of the forces and means of the CSTO collective security system to carry out earmarked tasks. Joint trainings are conducted against the background of the general military-political and strategic situation being developed by the CSTO Joint Staff in cooperation with the CSTO Secretariat and interested ministries and agencies of the CSTO member states in order to coordination the command bodies and formations of the forces and means of the collective security system and test their readiness.
The consultations provided an opportunity to discuss, finalize and agree on the draft Plan for joint training of command and control bodies and formations of the CSTO collective security system for 2024 and the List of measures for joint training of command and control bodies and formations of the CSTO collective security system for the period until 2030.
The agreed draft documents will be sent to the member states of the Organization for domestic approval.
