A meeting of the Working Group of the Coordination Council of Heads of Competent Authorities on Combating Illicit Drug Trafficking (CCHN) on organizing international anti-drug operations within the CSTO framework was held in Aktau, Republic of Kazakhstan.
The Open International Youth Sambo Festival of National Teams of the CSTO Member States was held at the International Sambo Center in Moscow.
On August 17–19, at the invitation of Colonel General Alexander Manilov, Chairman of the Coordination Service of the Council of Border Troops Commanders of the CIS, a delegation of the CSTO Joint Staff headed by Colonel General Andrey Serdyukov took part in international events held in the area of responsibility of the Border Directorate of the Russian Federal Security Service for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region.
On August 14, consultations were held via videoconference at the CSTO Joint Staff with representatives of relevant ministries and agencies of the CSTO member states on organizing joint training activities for command and control bodies and formations of the CSTO collective security system in 2027.
The meeting of the CSTO Working Group of Coordination Council of the Heads of Competent Authorities for Countering the Illicit Drug Trafficking took place in Yerevan
23.08.2019
In Yerevan, under the chairmanship of the First Deputy Head of the Main Directorate for Drug Trafficking Control of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, Kirill Smurov, a meeting of the Working Group of the Coordinating Council of the Heads of the competent authorities on countering drug trafficking of the CSTO member states was held. The event was attended by representatives of law enforcement agencies of Russia, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, as well as the Secretariat of the Collective Security Treaty Organization.
The first deputy chief of the Police of the Republic of Armenia Arman Sargsyan delivered a welcoming speech. Then, the forum participants discussed the state and dynamics of the development of the drug situation in the CSTO member states. In addition, the results of the tactical and special exercises of the anti-drug special units “Thunder-2019” ("Grom-2019") held in Kyrgyzstan were summed up.
