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.
The President of the Kyrgyz Republic Sadyr Japarov met with the CSTO Secretary General Stanislav Zas
01.09.2021
On September 1, this year, in Bishkek, the President of the Kyrgyz Republic Sadyr Japarov received the Collective Security Treaty Organization Secretary General Stanislav Zas, who is in the country on a two-day working visit. In the course of the meeting the CSTO Secretary General reported on the preparation for the upcoming regular session of the Collective Security Council in Dushanbe on September 15-16 and a joint meeting of the CSTO CFM, CMD and CSSC, as well as informed about the situation in the CSTO zone of responsibility.
President Sadyr Japarov noted that the Kyrgyz Republic attached special importance to cooperation of member States within the CSTO as a guarantor of security in the region. According to him, the growing level of threats in the Organization's area of responsibility requires close cooperation. It is necessary to maintain a high degree of readiness to neutralize risks and, if necessary, to respond promptly.
In turn, Stanislav Zas expressed his satisfaction with the meeting with the President of the Kyrgyz Republic and stressed its necessity in connection with the situation in the region. In addition, taking the opportunity, he congratulated President Sadyr Japarov on the 30th anniversary of independence of the Kyrgyz Republic and wished success, development, prosperity to the people of the country.
During his working visit to the country, the CSTO Secretary General also met with the Secretary of the Security Council of the Kyrgyz Republic, Marat Imankulov, the Foreign Minister Ruslan Kazakbaev, the Defense Minister of the Kyrgyz Republic, Major General Taalaibek Omuraliev and the Chairman of the State Committee for National Security Kamchybek Tashiev.In the course of the meetings they discussed the military-political situation in the Central Asian region of collective security, and preparations for the joint meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers, the Council of Defense Ministers and the CSTO Committee of Secretaries of Security Councils (scheduled for September 15 this year in Dushanbe).
At the meeting of the CSTO Secretary General with the Chairman of the State Committee for National Security of the Kyrgyz Republic, one of the central themes was the discussion of issues of combating terrorism and drug trafficking.
