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 working meeting of the main operational departments of the general staffs of the armed forces of the CSTO member states was held in Kyrgyzstan
30.08.2019
On August 28 and 29, a group of officers headed by the First Deputy Chief of the CSTO Joint Staff, Lieutenant General Hasan Kaloev, took part in the working meeting of the chiefs of the main operational departments of the general staffs of the armed forces of the CSTO member states, which was held in the village of Chok-Tal Issyk -Kul region of the Kyrgyz Republic.
During the meeting the challenges and threats to military security in the Central Asian region, plans for the development of military cooperation between the member states of the Organization for the medium term, as well as ways to improve the components of the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces) were discussed.
