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 question of inviting representatives of the ICRC to trainings with the CSTO Peacekeeping Forces “Indestructible Brotherhood-2019” on the territory of Tajikistan in October of this year was considered
24.04.2019
On April 24, 2019 a working meeting of the Acting CSTO Secretary General Valery Semerikov with Vice President of the International Committee of the Red Cross Gilles Carbonnier was held on the VIII Moscow Conference on International Security in Moscow.
Deputy Secretary General of the CSTO Piotr Tsikhanouski, Head of the ICRC Regional Delegation to the Russian Federation, Belarus and Moldova Magne Barth, Operational Coordinator of the Regional Operations Department in Europe and Central Asia Eric Daniel Bunskog, other representatives of the ICRC, and also the staff of the CSTO Secretariat took part in the working meeting.
A constructive exchange of views on issues relating to the state and further development of partnerships and mutually beneficial relations between the CSTO Secretariat and the ICRC took place.
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The question of inviting representatives of the ICRC to trainings with the CSTO Peacekeeping Forces “Indestructible Brotherhood-2019” on the territory of Tajikistan in October of this year was considered.
One of the important results is the confirmation of mutual interest in moving cooperation between the CSTO and the ICRC to a higher level.
