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.
At the CSTO Joint Staff, consultations on the Plan for joint training of command and control bodies and formations of the assets of the collective security system for 2022 were held via videoconferencing
27.01.2021
In the period from 26 to 27 January, on the basis of the Joint Staff of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, consultations to consider a draft Plan for joint training of command and control bodies and formations of the assets of the CSTO collective security system for 2022 were held via videoconferencing.
The event was held under the general supervision of the Deputy Head of the CSTO Joint Staff, Major General Sergey Kuprik. Representatives of interested ministries and departments of the Republic of Armenia, the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Russian Federation, the Republic of Tajikistan, the Secretariat and the Joint Staff of the CSTO took part in the event via videoconferencing.
In the course of the meeting, command and staff, special and joint trainings were discussed with the assets of reconnaissance, Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics, the Collective Rapid Reaction Forces, the Collective Air Forces, the CSTO Peacekeeping Forces, as well as with the Collective Rapid Deployment Forces of the Central Asian region.
The issues of conducting trainings for the operational staff of the CSTO Crisis Response Center and national bodies authorized to interact with it, joint training of military personnel and international military cooperation with states that are not CSTO member states and other international organizations were also considered.
“The measures envisaged by the Plan are aimed at increasing the readiness of the assets of the CSTO collective security system to carry out tasks as intended. The joint fruitful work made it possible to develop agreed positions on all the issues under consideration. All proposals and comments received on the draft Plan from the ministries and departments of the CSTO member states were discussed, the content of the document was finalized, "Major General Sergey Kuprik noted, summing up the results.
The CSTO Joint Staff will sent the agreed draft document for consideration to the CSTO Permanent Council.
