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.
Dushanbe will host the XXI meeting of the CSTO Interstate Commission for Military-Economic Cooperation
24.04.2023
A meeting of the Interstate Commission on Military-Economic Cooperation of the Collective Security Treaty Organization will be held in the capital of the Republic of Tajikistan, Dushanbe, on April 27, 2023. The event will be chaired by Denis Manturov, the Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation - Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation, Chairman of the CSTO Interstate Commission on Military-Economic Cooperation.
Imangali Tasmagambetov, the Secretary General of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, will take part in the ICMEC meeting.
The draft Agenda provides for consideration of the implementation of the decisions of the XX meeting of the ICMEC held in October 2022 in Moscow, as well as the results of implementation of the decisions of the statutory bodies of the Organization.
In particular, it is planned to discuss the content of further measures on standardization of weapons and military equipment within the CSTO and the development of multilateral cooperation between enterprises and organizations of the defense industry (military-industrial) complexes of the Organization's member states.
On the eve of the beginning of the ICMEC work the meetings of the Coordinating Council for Standardization of Armaments and Military Equipment under the CSTO ICMEC, as well as the meetings of the Coordinating Council under the CSTO ICMEC on issues of mutual protection of rights to the results of intellectual activity, obtained and used during the military and economic cooperation within the CSTO to review and coordinate documents in this part of the work, will be held.
The CSTO Interstate Commission on Military-Economic Cooperation was established by the decision of the CSTO Collective Security Council of June 23, 2005.
The Commission's tasks include formulating recommendations and adopting decisions within its competence to ensure multilateral military-economic (technical) cooperation in priority areas of cooperation within the CSTO format. These include the development and implementation of long-term programs for military-economic cooperation; development of cooperation in the production of military products; creation of joint ventures for the development, production, modernization, repair and disposal of military products; and joint research and development work on the development and modernization of military products, among others.
