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 VI Coordination Meeting of the High-Level Representatives the Collective Security Treaty Organization and the International Committee of the Red Cross took place in Geneva
26.11.2021On November 26, 2021, the VI Coordination Meeting of the High-Level Representatives of the Collective Security Treaty Organization and the International Committee of the Red Cross was held at the ICRC headquarters (Geneva).
Prior to the meeting, the CSTO Deputy Secretary General Takhir Khayrulloyev had a meeting with the ICRC Director General Robert Mardini to exchange views on strategic and operational priorities of humanitarian activities relevant to both organizations with respect to conflict regions of mutual interest.
The CSTO Secretariat was represented by the Deputy Secretary General Takhir Khayrulloyev and responsible officials from the CSTO Secretariat and the CSTO Joint Staff. The ICRC was represented by Dominique Stillhart, the Head of the ICRC Directorate for Operations, and heads of structural divisions of the ICRC Headquarters in Geneva and of the ICRC Regional Delegation in the Russian Federation, the Republic of Belarus and the Republic of Moldova.
In the course of the Coordination Meeting, the parties have discussed a wide range of issues:
- on key regions of ICRC operational activities and CSTO regions of responsibility;
- on the humanitarian situation in and around Afghanistan, the main threats to security and stability in the region and ways of overcoming them;
- on countering terrorism and violent extremism;
- on the current status and prospects for the development of cooperation with the CSTO Secretariat and the CSTO Joint Staff, the Coordination Council for Emergency Situations and the Working Group on Afghanistan;
- on the results of joint work of our organizations in 2021 and prospects for 2022;
- on the ICRC participation in joint trainings of the forces and means of the CSTO collective security system as regards the use of ICRC proposals on the application of international humanitarian law norms in developing the design of trainings and analysis of their results.
There was a constructive exchange of views on the development of cooperation between the working bodies of the CSTO and the ICRC for the short and long term in order to increase mutual trust and continue the practice of participation in joint activities.
The result of this event was the confirmation of mutual interest in improving the mechanism of interaction between the CSTO and the ICRC and the signing of the Resolution, which confirmed the readiness of the CSTO and the ICRC working bodies to continue their work and develop cooperation to enhance the thematic and expert exchange of views on topics of mutual interest and to ensure closer cooperation between the ICRC and the CSTO in terms of compliance with international humanitarian law.
It was agreed that the next Coordination Meeting will be held in Moscow in 2023.
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