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.
First consultations of representatives of legal services of foreign ministries of the CSTO member States on legal aspects of the Organization's activities were held
06.09.2022
The CSTO Secretary General Stanislav Zas addressed the participants of the event, noting the symbolism of holding consultations in the year of the 30th anniversary of the signing of the Collective Security Treaty and the 20th anniversary of the establishment of the CSTO. Stanislav Zas stressed that during these years member States established an extensive legal basis for cooperation in all spheres of the Organization's activities, which was based on 60 international agreements, 335 decisions of the Collective Security Council and almost 1.5 thousand legal acts of other CSTO bodies.
In the course of the event, a number of topical international legal issues were considered in order to improve the legal framework for cooperation within the CSTO format. As a result of the consultations, it was recommended to continue the Secretariat's work on the digitalization of the legal and contractual framework for cooperation, as well as to prepare proposals to update the methodological recommendations for drafting international treaties concluded within the framework of the Collective Security Treaty Organization.
