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.
Consultations of Deputy Foreign Ministers of the CSTO member states were held in Minsk
31.05.2023
Consultations of Deputy Foreign Ministers of the Collective Security Treaty Organization member states were held in Minsk on May 30, 2023, under the chairmanship of the Belarusian side with the participation of the CSTO Deputy Secretary General S.I. Ordabaev and employees of the Organization Secretariat.
The event was an important step in the preparation of the forthcoming meeting of the Council of Ministers for Foreign Affairs, scheduled for June of this year.
In the course of the meeting the package of documents on urgent issues of cooperation of the CSTO member states was discussed in detail and finalized.
The parties had a productive exchange of views on the development of the CSTO dialogue with other international organizations and individual countries.
The event was held in accordance with the Plan of Consultations of Representatives of the Collective Security Treaty Organization Member States on Foreign Policy, Defense and Security for 2022-2024.
