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 Secretariat hosted consultations of deputy foreign ministers of the CSTO member States on preparation for the meetings of the CSTO statutory bodies in Dushanbe on September 15-16
07.09.2021
On September 7, 2021, the CSTO Secretariat hosted consultations of deputy foreign ministers of Collective Security Treaty Organization member States (hereinafter referred to as the consultations).
The participants have discussed issues of preparation and conduct of upcoming meetings of the CSTO statutory bodies in Dushanbe on September 15-16, coordinated draft documents to be submitted to the session of the Collective Security Council and the joint meeting of the CSTO CFM, CMD and CSSC.
The CSTO Secretary General S.V. Zas informed the deputy heads of foreign affairs departments about the activities aimed at implementing the instructions given at the August 23, 2021 extraordinary session of the CSTO Collective Security Council devoted to the situation in Afghanistan.
At the conclusion of the Consultations, the Tajik side presented information on organizational issues of the upcoming meetings of the CSTO statutory bodies in Dushanbe.
