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.
Heads of military-medical services have discussed the medical support of the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces)
21.04.2023
On April 19-21, 2023, in Minsk, a working meeting of representatives of medical services of defense agencies of the CSTO member states was held.
The participants of the working meeting paid particular attention to discussing common approaches to first aid and the formation of standards for first aid in the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces), taking into account the national legislations of the CSTO member states.
They have discussed the standardization of certain areas of medical support, the formation of a system of remote telemedicine consultations to provide assistance to medical specialists of the main (central) military-medical organizations of the CSTO member states.
An exchange of views took place on issues of medical support for joint (special) trainings held in the Republic of Kazakhstan in 2022 and medical support for planned joint trainings with the CSTO Collective Forces this year.
At the end of the event, the heads of the military medical services outlined ways to improve and develop cooperation on medical support for the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces).
Presentations were made by Colonel Alexander Malyukh, Head of the Military Medical Department of the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Belarus; Colonel Yerzhan Smaiyl, Head of the Chief Military Medical Department of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Kazakhstan; Amanbai Matisakov, Head of the Military Medical Department of the Ministry of Defense of the Kyrgyz Republic, Colonel of Medical Service; Oleg Kalachev, Head of the Department - Deputy Head of the Main Military Medical Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, Major General of Medical Service, and Colonel Ivan Pchelnikov, Head of Medical Service of the CSTO Joint Staff.
Within the framework of the working meeting, at the invitation of the Minister of Health of the Republic of Belarus Dmitry Pinevich, the participants visited the exhibition of pharmaceutical industry samples and production workshops of the Republican Unitary Production Enterprise "Belmedpreparaty”.
