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 of heads of national headquarters for the CSTO operation "PROXY" was held
16.03.2023
On March 15, 2023, the CSTO Secretariat hosted a meeting of heads and authorized representatives of national headquarters for the Collective Security Treaty Organization continuous operation on combating information technology crimes (“PROXY”). It was attended by delegations of representatives of national authorized bodies for responding to computer incidents of the CSTO member states.
The CSTO Deputy Secretary General Valery Semerikov addressed the meeting. He noted that in 2022, despite the difficult situation and the increasing scale of illegal actions against the CSTO member states, all national structures of the CSTO member states involved in the operation successfully accomplished their tasks. "The set of planned and implemented measures has generally been fulfilled. Employees of law enforcement agencies, special services and law enforcement bodies, specialized ministries and departments of the member states directly involved in combating crimes in the field of information technology acted competently and professionally," Valery Semerikov noted.
The meeting participants have discussed the results of work in 2022 and identified priority activities to combat criminal manifestations in the field of information technology this year and in the near future.
