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 CSTO Secretary General Imangali Tasmagambetov had a meeting with the Belarusian Defense Minister Viktor Khrenin
24.10.2023
On 24 October 2023, in Minsk, the CSTO Secretary General Imangali Tasmagambetov met with Lieutenant General Viktor Khrenin, the Minister of Defense of the Republic of Belarus.
The parties have discussed the preparations for the next joint meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers, the Council of Defense Ministers, the Committee of Secretaries of the CSTO Security Councils and the session of the CSTO Collective Security Council, and summed up the interim results of the implementation of the joint activities envisaged in the format of the Organization for the period of the Belarusian chairmanship in it in 2023.
There was a thorough exchange of views on the military and political situation in the CSTO area of responsibility.
At the end of the meeting, the Belarusian Minister of Defense wished the CSTO Secretary General fruitful work as part of his participation in the high-level conference "Eurasian Security: Reality and Prospects in a Transforming World".
