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.
A working visit of the delegation of the CSTO Joint Staff to the Republic of Kazakhstan took place to discuss issues of information interaction between the CSTO Crisis Response Center and Military command authorities of Kazakhstan
14.06.2019
From June 10 to June 13, 2019, a joint working group of representatives of the CSTO Joint Staff and the National Center for Defense Management of the Russian Federation made a working visit to the Republic of Kazakhstan.
During the working meeting, the Central Command Post of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Kazakhstan information interaction between the CSTO Crisis Response Center and the defense authorities of the Organization's member states, as well as the procedure for conducting joint training with duty shifts and other organizational and technical issues were discussed.
The Chief of the Central Command Point of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Kazakhstan Major-General Fazolla Badenov told the event participants about the organization of the duty shift in their daily activities and in the event of crisis situations, as well as about interaction with regional commands.
Deputy Chief of the CSTO Joint Staff Major General Sergey Kuprik noted that the working meeting allowed to discuss actual issues and determine the directions for further work on the development of the system of interstate information interaction within the framework of the CSTO.
