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 XI meeting of the Council of the CSTO Consultative Coordination Center for Computer Incident Response was held
29.06.2021On June 29, 2021, the CSTO Secretariat in Moscow hosted the XI meeting of the Council of the Collective Security Treaty Organization Consultative Coordination Center for Computer Incident Response (CSTO CCC), which was attended by delegations from national authorized bodies on computer incident response of the CSTO member States.
The CSTO Deputy Secretary General Valery Semerikov opened the meeting and addressed meeting participants. He noted the need to increase efforts to ensure cybersecurity and improve cooperation between the CSTO member States in this regard.
The CSTO CCC Council was renewed and the Chairman of the CSTO CCC Council was re-elected for a three-year term.
The report of the newly elected Chairman of the Council on the CSTO CCC activities in 2020 noted an increase in the volume and quality of joint measures taken to respond to computer incidents as an important component of ensuring the security of the information space of the CSTO member States.
In the course of the meeting, members of the CSTO CCC Council discussed topical issues related to the results of the past command and post training on computer security of the CSTO CCC contact points and the planned technical training on computer security. They shared their positive experience in protecting national critical information infrastructure facilities from cyber threats, information on computer incidents in the information space of CSTO member States, and information and analytical materials provided by the national contact points.
At the meeting, the CSTO Secretary General issued an order on rewarding the most distinguished employees of authorized competent bodies of the CSTO member States on the results of the CSTO CCC coordinated activities on the response to computer incidents.
