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.
Meeting of the Working Group on Afghanistan under the CSTO Ministerial Council was held
03.02.2021
On February 2, 2021, a regular meeting of the Working Group on Afghanistan under the CSTO Ministerial Council was held via videoconferencing, The national coordinators of the CSTO member states for Afghanistan, the Deputy Secretary General of the CSTO Takhir Khayrulloyev and the representative of the Afghan Embassy in Moscow took part in the meeting.
The meeting discussed issues related to the military-political situation in Afghanistan. They considered the risks coming from the territory of Afghanistan for the neighboring states of Central Asia and methods of countering the challenges and threats emanating from there.
The results of the Group's work for the second half of 2020 were summed up and the Working Plan of the CSTO Ministerial Council for the first half of 2021 was adopted.
