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.
The CSTO Joint Staff held consultations on improving the organization of communication systems
14.12.2022
On December 14 this year, at the CSTO Joint Staff, a working meeting to review selected issues related to the organization of communications within the Collective Security Treaty Organization was held. Representatives of the defense communications authorities of the Republic of Armenia, the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Russia, and the Republic of Tajikistan participated in the event via videoconferencing.
Colonel Vitaly Kenyaykin, head of the department for the organization of communications and automated Troop control systems (Collective Forces), made a presentation on this year's results of joint work. He said, "In 2022, the main test of the strength of the CSTO communication system was the peacekeeping operation in the Republic of Kazakhstan. Communication was successfully organized during joint trainings in the CSTO format. In October 2022, on the territory of the Republic of Kazakhstan, a communication line was deployed with the training range Matybulak, secured videoconferencing and data transfer with the CSTO Joint Staff and defense agencies of the CSTO member states was provided. Similar work was done from the territory of the Republic of Tajikistan, when training and combat tasks were practiced at the Kharbmaidon training range”.
It was noted that the CSTO regulatory and legal framework in the field of communications continued to improve: in 2022 a number of working meetings on the implementation of the CSTO Multiservice Communications Network Scheme were held; the CSTO Communications System Regulations were considered and approved by the CSTO Collective Security Council; draft Recommendations on the organization of communications within the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces) were elaborated and tested at the CSTO trainings this year.
The event allowed to discuss the results of the functioning of the communications system and automated troop control systems in the course of joint activities of operational and combat training of command and control bodies and formations of forces and means of the CSTO collective security system, as well as to outline ways to improve the technical basis of the interstate information interaction system of the Collective Security Treaty Organization.
