A meeting of the Working Group of the Coordination Council of Heads of Competent Authorities on Combating Illicit Drug Trafficking (CCHN) on organizing international anti-drug operations within the CSTO framework was held in Aktau, Republic of Kazakhstan.
The Open International Youth Sambo Festival of National Teams of the CSTO Member States was held at the International Sambo Center in Moscow.
On August 17–19, at the invitation of Colonel General Alexander Manilov, Chairman of the Coordination Service of the Council of Border Troops Commanders of the CIS, a delegation of the CSTO Joint Staff headed by Colonel General Andrey Serdyukov took part in international events held in the area of responsibility of the Border Directorate of the Russian Federal Security Service for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region.
On August 14, consultations were held via videoconference at the CSTO Joint Staff with representatives of relevant ministries and agencies of the CSTO member states on organizing joint training activities for command and control bodies and formations of the CSTO collective security system in 2027.
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
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.