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 12th Southern Information Security Forum “Infoforum Sochi 2026” is taking place in Sochi, Russia, from June 30 to July 3. On July 1, the Forum's plenary session brought together representatives of federal and regional authorities, regulatory bodies, leading companies, and international organizations to discuss current challenges in the protection of critical infrastructure, the development of artificial intelligence, and international cooperation.
The IX meeting of the Council of the CSTO Computer Incident Response Coordination Center took place in Bishkek
26.06.2019On June 26, 2019, the 9th meeting of the Council of the Collective Security Treaty Organization Computer Incident Response Coordination Center took place in Bishkek, which was attended by delegations of the CSTO member states and representatives of the national authorized computer incident response agencies.
During the meeting, chaired by the Kyrgyz side, members of the Council of the CSTO Computer Incident Response Coordination Center discussed topical issues related to the organization of information exchange on potential threats, the results of the computer incidents response trainings held the day before the Council, positive experience in protecting national critical information infrastructure from cyber threats, computer incidents in the information spaces of the CSTO member states and information and analytical materials, Applicants' national contact points for the period that has elapsed since the previous meeting of the Council of the CSTO Coordinating Center for Computer Emergency Response.
Reference: The CSTO Computer Incident Response Coordination Center was formed by the decision of the CSTO Collective Security Council of December 23, 2014 at the Computer Incident Response Center in the information and telecommunications networks of the state authorities of the Russian Federation, operating in the structure of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation.
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