On 20 September 2023, in Bishkek, an international conference on combating terrorism and extremism was held. The event was organized by the State Committee for National Security of the Kyrgyz Republic and the Anti-Terrorist Centre of the CIS member states.
In accordance with the CSTO CCBCD Plan of Basic Activities for 2023, a subregional anti-drug operation "Channel-Perekhvat" was carried out in the territory of the CSTO member states from 11 to 15 September, this year, with a view to suppressing channels for the flow of drugs, their precursors and analogues and new psychoactive and potent substances into the CSTO region of responsibility, neutralizing international transnational drug groups, eliminating clandestine drug production and undermining the economic foundations of the drug business, including the legalization of drug proceeds. The subregional anti-drug operation "Channel-Perekhvat" was carried out in order to legalize drug profits.
The CSTO Secretary General Imangali Tasmagambetov met with the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on 14 September 2023.
Within the framework of the chairmanship of the Republic of Belarus in the Collective Security Treaty Organization, a regular Coordination Meeting of Chief Narcologists of the CSTO member states was held in Minsk on 7 September 2023.
On 6 September 2023, in Bishkek, the CSTO Secretary General Imangali Tasmagambetov met with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kyrgyz Republic Jeenbek Kulubayev, the Minister of Defense Baktybek Bekbolotov and the Secretary of the country's Security Council Marat Imankulov to discuss topical issues in preparation for the upcoming meetings of the Organization's statutory bodies - the Collective Security Council, the Council of Foreign Ministers, the Council of Defense Ministers and the Committee of Secretaries of Security Councils.
The first International military-scientific conference on the improvement of the Joint communications system and automated control systems of the CSTO Collective forces was held

On June 8 this year at the International Military Center in Moscow, for the first time, an international military science conference devoted to the improvement of the CSTO Unified communications system and automated control systems for troops (Collective forces) was held.
Representatives of defense agencies of Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Tajikistan, the CSTO Joint Staff and Secretariat, the Secretariat of the Council of defense ministers of the CIS member states, military-educational and military-scientific organizations, and industry participated in the conference.
The event took place under the general leadership of Colonel General Anatoly Sidorov, chief of the CSTO Joint staff. Addressing the conference participants, he said: "The most important area of development of the Collective Security Treaty Organization is to improve the system of interstate information interaction and the control system of the CSTO Troops (Collective forces), the technical basis of which is the communication system. The experience of the peacekeeping operation in the Republic of Kazakhstan and the annual joint exercises shows the necessity of coordination of efforts of the CSTO member states on the issues of establishing and developing the communication system.
In the course of the speeches was noted that the CSTO Joint staff in cooperation with defense and other interested ministries and departments of the Organization member states developed and approved by the CSTO Collective security council a CSTO protected multiservice communication network scheme, draft Regulations on the CSTO communication system, which define the purpose, tasks and requirements for the communication system of Organization, and also draft Recommendations on organization of communication in the Components of the CSTO Military (Collective forces), which are proposed for testing in 2022, were prepared.
During the conference, an exhibition of exhibits by leading representatives of the defense industry in the field of communications was organized, who presented samples of communications equipment and software planned for use in the CSTO communications system.
The event provided an opportunity to discuss the results of research on the functioning of the communications system and ACST in the course of joint operational and combat training of command and control bodies and forces of the CSTO collective security system, as well as to outline ways to improve this direction.