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 with participants in a meeting of chairmen of committees (commissions) of the parliaments of CSTO member states with jurisdiction over international relations, defense and security issues was held at the CSTO Joint Staff
08.02.2024
On 7 February, participants in a meeting of the chairmen of the committees (commissions) of the parliaments of the CSTO member states, with jurisdiction over international relations, defense and security issues visited the CSTO Joint Staff.
Colonel General Andrei Serdyukov, Chief of the CSTO Joint Staff, briefed the participants in the meeting on the activities of the Organization's Crisis Response Centre and the structural subunits of the Joint Staff. The delegation was informed of the main conclusions from the assessment of the politico-military situation in the collective security regions, the improvement of crisis response mechanisms and the main tasks of the Joint Staff for 2024.
The participants of the working meeting have discussed topical issues of improving the system of collective security, the implementation of priority areas of the CSTO for the period of the presidency of the Republic of Kazakhstan in the Organization in 2024 and cooperation in the development of documents and joint activities.
Following the working meeting, Colonel General Andrei Serdyukov noted in particular that "the Joint Staff considers it important to continue to maintain close cooperation with the structures of the CSTO Parliamentary Assembly in order to successfully resolve the tasks".
