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 meeting of the Working Group on Military-Economic Cooperation under the Chairman of the CSTO Interstate Commission on Military-Economic Cooperation was held
24.04.2026
On 23–24 April 2026, a meeting of the Working Group on Military-Economic Cooperation under the Chairman of the CSTO Interstate Commission on Military-Economic Cooperation was held.
The meeting took place in Moscow at the CSTO Joint Staff under the chairmanship of Secretary of the CSTO Interstate Commission on Military-Economic Cooperation (ICMEC, the Commission) Viktor Zinovyev.
The participants reviewed the progress in implementing the decisions of the 23rd meeting of the ICMEC, held in November 2025 in Astana (Republic of Kazakhstan), and discussed and agreed on the list of issues to be submitted for consideration at the 24th meeting of the ICMEC, scheduled for 18 June this year in Minsk (Republic of Belarus), which will be held within the framework of the business program of the 3rd International Exhibition of the Security Industry “National Security. Belarus – 2026” (17–19 June this year, Minsk).
As a result of the meeting, draft decisions of the Commission were approved on the establishment of an interstate system for cataloguing military supplies of the armed forces of the CSTO member states, on ensuring mutual protection of intellectual property rights to the results of intellectual activity obtained and used in the course of military-economic cooperation within the CSTO framework, as well as on a number of organizational issues.
In addition, draft agenda and protocol of the 24th meeting of the ICMEC were agreed.
