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.
First consultations of the heads of press services of the Foreign Ministries of the CSTO member States were held in Minsk
30.11.2021
On November 30, 2021, Minsk hosted the first consultations of the heads of information departments (press services) of the Foreign Ministries of the CSTO member States.
With the participation of representatives of the Organization's Secretariat and the CSTO Joint Staff, issues of information interaction between the relevant divisions of the foreign policy departments of CSTO member States and the Organization's working bodies were discussed in detail. Particular attention was paid to developing common approaches to the coverage of the Organization's activities and to improving the techniques and methods of "digital diplomacy”.
Participants of the consultations discussed coordinated steps for further implementation of joint measures of the CSTO member States' diplomatic missions to increase information about the CSTO activities.
Proposals by the CSTO Secretariat on the implementation of the Plan of events dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the signing of the Collective Security Treaty and the 20th anniversary of the Collective Security Treaty Organization were considered, and additional directions for interaction between the press services of foreign ministries were outlined as part of the implementation of the Plan. The Organization's anniversary will be celebrated on May 15, 2022.
Information from the CSTO Joint Staff on the organization of press centers in the course of the preparation and conduct of joint trainings was heard.
An agreement was reached to hold the following consultations of the heads of information departments (press services) of the Ministries of Foreign Affairs of the CSTO member States in the second half of 2022.
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The CSTO Press Secretary Vladimir Zaynetdinov
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