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.
VI High-Level Coordination Meeting between the CSTO and the International Committee of the Red Cross will be held in Geneva on November 26
24.11.2021The VI High-Level Coordination Meeting (Headquarters Conference) in the framework of cooperation between the Collective Security Treaty Organization Secretariat and the International Committee of the Red Cross will be held in Geneva on November 26, 2021.
The Coordination Meeting will be attended by the CSTO Deputy Secretary General Takhir Khayrulloyev and responsible officials from the CSTO Secretariat and the CSTO Joint Staff; Dominique Stilhart, the ICRC Director of Operations, and the heads of ICRC structural divisions in Geneva and of the ICRC Regional Delegation in the Russian Federation, the Republic of Belarus and the Republic of Moldova.
During the meeting, it is planned to analyze the activities carried out in the framework of cooperation between the ICRC and the CSTO, to exchange views on humanitarian challenges in regions of armed conflicts, and to discuss specific proposals for further development of cooperation between the ICRC and the CSTO and to identify key areas of cooperation for the coming year 2022.
At the end of the event, it is planned to sign a Resolution of the VI High-Level Coordination Meeting of the Collective Security Treaty Organization and the International Committee of the Red Cross.
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The CSTO Press Secretary Vladimir Zaynetdinov +7 495-795-27-10 +7 495-621-33-23
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The ICRC Regional Delegation Press Secretary in Russia, the Republic of Belarus and the Republic of Moldova Galina Balzamova +7-495-626-54-26 +7-903-545-35-34
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