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 meeting was held between the CSTO Secretary General Imangali Tasmagambetov and the Chairman of the Russian State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin
13.10.2025
On October 13, 2025, in Moscow, the CSTO Secretary General Imangali Tasmagambetov met with Vyacheslav Volodin, the Chairman of the Russian State Duma and the Chairman of the CSTO Parliamentary Assembly, where they had a detailed exchange of views on the situation in the Organization's area of responsibility and a number of other regions.
The interlocutors have discussed preparations for the meeting of the Council of the CSTO Parliamentary Assembly, as well as a number of pressing tasks facing the Organization in the context of Russia's chairmanship in 2026.
Imangali Tasmagambetov has reported on preparations for the upcoming joint meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers, the Council of Defense Ministers, the Committee of Secretaries of Security Councils, and the session of the CSTO Collective Security Council in November this year.
