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 held the 35th meeting of the Working Group on Afghanistan at the CSTO Ministerial Council
01.04.2022
On April 1, 2022, the 35th meeting of the Working Group on Afghanistan at the CSTO Ministerial Council was held with the participation of the CSTO Deputy Secretary General Samat Ordabayev. Delegations of the Organization's member States and representatives of the UN Regional Centre for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia, the CIS ATC, the CIS Coordination Service of the Council of Border Troop Commanders, the SCO RATS and the ICRC also took part in the event.
In the course of the meeting, the CSTO Deputy Secretary General S. Ordabayev noted that the Afghan issue continued to be very topical for the international community. Significant attention was paid to this issue in the framework of the meeting of the OSCE Ministerial Council (December 2021) as well as on February 16, this year, during the meeting of the UN Security Council devoted to the cooperation between the UN and the CSTO in ensuring global security. The timeliness of the Third Ministerial Conference of Afghanistan's Neighboring Countries (March 31, this year, China) on the promotion of post-conflict reconstruction and the normalization of the socio-economic situation in this state was emphasized.
The meeting participants held a thorough exchange of views on the military and political situation in Afghanistan. Information on cooperation of the CSTO member States in training law enforcement, customs and anti-drug structures was considered. The results of the work of the Group for the first half of 2022 were summarized.
At the end the Protocol of the meeting and the Plan of work of the Group for the second half of 2022 were adopted.
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