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 held consultations on improvement of crisis response system
24.03.2022
On March 24, in Moscow, under the chairmanship of Colonel General Anatoly Sidorov, Chief of the CSTO Joint Staff, consultations were held via videoconferencing between representatives of defense ministries of the CSTO member States, the CSTO Secretariat and the CSTO Joint Staff to agree on the draft Action Plan aimed at improving the crisis response system.
The event was attended by representatives of defense agencies of the Republic of Armenia, the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Russian Federation, the Republic of Tajikistan, as well as the CSTO Secretariat and the CSTO Joint Staff.
Participants of the consultations have analyzed the peacekeeping operation in the Republic of Kazakhstan in January 2022, considered and discussed proposals for improving crisis response mechanisms, the use of peacekeeping forces abroad, as well as the organization of international flights of the armed forces of the CSTO member States.
The draft document was finalized and agreed upon.
As a result of consultations, it was agreed to consider the draft Plan agreed upon and ready to be submitted for approval to the Chairman of the CSTO Defense Ministerial Council - the Minister of Defense of the Republic of Armenia.
