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 meeting of the Coordination Council of the Heads of Competent Authorities for Countering Illicit Drug Trafficking of the CSTO Member States was held in Minsk
24.10.2023
On 24 October 2023, the 25th meeting of the Coordination Council of the Heads of Competent Authorities for Countering Illicit Drug Trafficking of the Member States of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (hereinafter referred to as CSTO CCBCD) was held in the city of Minsk.
The meeting was attended by heads of agencies and representatives of anti-drug units of the Ministries of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Armenia, the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Russian Federation, the Drug Control Agency under the President of the Republic of Tajikistan and the CSTO Secretariat.
Opening the meeting of the Coordination Council, the Minister of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Belarus, Ivan Kubrakov, noted in his speech the great role and importance of the Coordination Council in the development and implementation of coordinated measures to counter illicit drug trafficking in the format of the Collective Security Treaty Organization. The Minister also stressed that the activities of the Belarusian side in combating illicit drug trafficking during its chairmanship of the Organization had been a priority and highlighted the results of that work.
Andrei Khrapov, Chairman of the Coordination Council of Heads of Competent Authorities for Countering Illicit Drug Trafficking of CSTO Member States, the Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, noted that the Coordination Council had accumulated extensive experience of joint work and drew the attention of the meeting participants to the need to continue the practice of conducting and improving the effectiveness of coordinated anti-drug activities aimed at countering the drug threat. Through the efforts of the CSTO CCBCD, a mechanism of international cooperation has been established on a multilateral basis, and mutual understanding has been reached between the competent authorities of the states.
Valery Semerikov, the CSTO Deputy Secretary General, made a welcoming address to the meeting participants. He drew attention to the complex military and political situation in the Organization’s area of responsibility and its impact on the fulfilment of tasks related to countering challenges and threats to the security of our states, including those related to illicit drug trafficking. In his statement, the CSTO Deputy Secretary General noted the importance of closer cooperation in combating the drug threat with the relevant structures of international and regional organizations, such as the United Nations, the CIS and the SCO.
In the course of the meeting, a report on the results of the activities of the Coordination Council of the Heads of Competent Authorities for Countering Illicit Drug Trafficking in 2023 was considered, the heads of the competent bodies of the anti-drug agencies of the CSTO member states were briefed on the work done during the same period, and other issues related to improving the effectiveness of combating illicit drug trafficking and the functioning of the Coordination Council were discussed..
