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 12th Southern Information Security Forum “Infoforum Sochi 2026” is taking place in Sochi, Russia, from June 30 to July 3. On July 1, the Forum's plenary session brought together representatives of federal and regional authorities, regulatory bodies, leading companies, and international organizations to discuss current challenges in the protection of critical infrastructure, the development of artificial intelligence, and international cooperation.
The session of the Collective Security Council will be held via videoconferencing on December 2. The day before meetings of the Council of Ministers of Foreign Affairs and the Council of Ministers of Defense of the CSTO will be held in the on-line format
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On December 2, this year, the session of the Collective Security Council (CSC) of the Collective Security Treaty Organization will be held under the chairmanship of the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin.
For the first time, the CSC will be held via videoconferencing, and the CSTO Crisis Response Center will also be involved. The event will be attended by the Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan, the President of the Republic of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, the Acting President of the Kyrgyz Republic Talant Mamytov, the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin and the President of the Republic of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon. The CSTO Secretary General Stanislav Zas will also participate in the meeting.
The CSC members will discuss the state of international security and issues of further increasing the effectiveness of the CSTO, the implementation of the decisions of the session of the Collective Security Council and the statutory bodies of the Collective Security Treaty Organization in the intersessional period, as well as the development and strengthening of inter-parliamentary cooperation of the CSTO member states. It is planned that the Chairman of the CSTO Parliamentary Assembly, the Chairman of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation Vyacheslav Volodin will provide information on this issue.
As already reported, the day before, on December 1, meetings of the Council of Foreign Ministers (chaired by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov) and the Council of Ministers of Defense (chaired by the Russian Defense Minister General of the Army Sergei Shoigu) will be held, which will also be held by videoconferencing. At the meetings of the Council of Ministers of Foreign Affairs and the Council of Ministers of Defense, it is planned to discuss issues submitted to the session of the Collective Security Council, as well as issues on the development of interaction between the CSTO and the United Nations and the CSTO's participation in peacekeeping activities under the auspices of the UN, challenges and threats to military security in the regions of collective security.
In the course of the CSC session, it is planned to adopt the Declaration of the Collective Security Council and the Statement on the formation of a just and sustainable world order.
It is expected that decisions will be made by the CSTO CSC on the approval of the Plan for the Development of Military Cooperation between the Member States of the Collective Security Treaty Organization for 2021-2025, and the new Anti-Drug Strategy of the CSTO Member States for 2021-2025.
The agenda of the Collective Security Council includes draft decisions of the CSTO CSC concerning the material, technical and medical support of the Collective Forces, as well as additional measures to improve the training system for public authorities of the member states of the Collective Security Treaty Organization. The CSC will consider the Organization's budget for 2021.
Taking into account the chairmanship of the Republic of Tajikistan in the CSTO in 2020-2021, it is expected that President of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon will announce the priorities of the Republic of Tajikistan in the next intersessional period.
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The CSTO Press Secretary Vladimir Zaynetdinov
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