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 XXIII meeting of the CSTO Interstate Commission on Military-Economic Cooperation was held in Astana
10.11.2025
The XXIII meeting of the CSTO Interstate Commission on Military-Economic Cooperation was held in Astana (the Republic of Kazakhstan) under the chairmanship of Denis Manturov, Chairman of the CSTO Interstate Commission on Military-Economic Cooperation and First Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation.
The results of the activities of the Commission on the implementation of the decisions of the 22nd session of the ICMEC, held in September last year in Bishkek (the Kyrgyz Republic), were discussed.
Along with this, the meeting Agenda included discussions on further development of military-economic cooperation within the CSTO framework. These included organizing training for personnel at enterprises and organizations in the defense-industrial (military-industrial) complexes of the CSTO member states, the creation of an intergovernmental system for cataloguing items supplied to the armed forces, and ensuring mutual protection of intellectual property rights obtained and used in the course of military-economic cooperation within the CSTO. The Commission adopted appropriate decisions on all issues considered on the meeting agenda.
The Commission decided to hold the Second CSTO Military-Economic Conference in Minsk (the Republic of Belarus) in 2026, at which it plans to summarize the Commission's work over the past 20 years and set tasks for the near future.
The meeting approved the ICMEC Work Plan for 2026.
It was decided to hold the next, ХХIV meeting of the Commission in September-October 2026 in the Republic of Belarus.
