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.
In Minsk, the CSTO Secretary General met with the State Secretary of the Security Council of the Republic of Belarus Alexander Volfovich
13.02.2023
The Belarusian state news agency "BelTA” reports, that on February 13, this year, in Minsk, the State Secretary of the Security Council of the Republic of Belarus Alexander Wolfovich met with the Secretary General of the Collective Security Treaty Organization Imangali Tasmagambetov.
During the meeting, opinions were exchanged on current developments on the international agenda. They discussed the chairmanship of the Republic of Belarus in the organization and the implementation of the decisions previously taken by the CSTO Committee of Secretaries of Security Councils.
Imangali Tasmagambetov informed of the work of the CSTO Secretariat in preparation for the next events scheduled for 2023.
Alexander Wolfovich drew attention to the Belarus' initiatives within the framework of the presidency in the organization, which passed from Armenia to Belarus at the end of last year, and also suggested holding the next meeting of the CSTO Committee of Secretaries of Security Councils in Minsk in June this year.
