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 a meeting of the Acting Secretary General of the CSTO Valery Semerikov with the leadership of the Secretariat of the CSTO Parliamentary Assembly
06.03.2019
On March 6, 2019, a working meeting of the leadership of the CSTO Secretariat with the authorized representatives of the parliaments of the CSTO member states, headed by the Executive Secretary of the CSTO Parliamentary Assembly Peter Ryabukhin, was held at the headquarters of the Collective Security Treaty Organization. During the meeting, the Acting Secretary General of the CSTO, Valery Semerikov, informed the meeting participants about the activities of the CSTO at the current stage and the challenges facing the Organization. In his speech, the Executive Secretary of the CSTO Parliamentary Assembly focused on the activities of the Assembly in 2018 and plans for 2019. He particularly stressed the importance of work to bring together and harmonize the legislation of the CSTO member states in the area of ensuring the security of the CSTO member states and confronting contemporary challenges and threats.
In general, the working meeting became a new stage in the way of improving the interaction between the CSTO Secretariat and the CSTO Parliamentary Assembly. Its participants recognized the mutual usefulness of such meetings and confirmed their readiness to hold them on a regular basis.
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