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 Military Committee has discussed issues of military cooperation development
12.04.2024
The 23rd meeting of the Military Committee on military cooperation development among the CSTO member states under the supervision of the Chairman of the Military Committee, Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation - First Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, Army General Valery Gerasimov, took place today via videoconferencing.
The meeting was attended by Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces - First Deputy Minister of Defense of the Republic of Belarus, Major General Viktor Gulevich; First Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Lieutenant General of Aviation Nurlan Karbenov; Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces - First Deputy Minister of Defense of the Kyrgyz Republic, Major General Ruslan Mukambetov; Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces - First Deputy Minister of Defense of the Republic of Tajikistan Lieutenant General Emomali Sobirzoda; Chief of the CSTO Joint Staff, Colonel General Andrei Serdyukov; the Deputy Secretary General of the CSTO Taalatbek Masadykov, representatives of the defense agencies of the Organization's member states, the CSTO Joint Staff and the CSTO Secretariat.
First Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Lieutenant General of Aviation Nurlan Karbenov, made a report on the priority areas of CSTO activities in the military sphere, proposed by the Republic of Kazakhstan for the period of chairmanship in the Organization in 2024, and measures for their implementation.
Challenges and threats to military security in the CSTO collective security regions were discussed during the meeting. Lieutenant General Khasan Kaloyev, First Deputy Chief of the Joint Staff and Head of the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces) Planning and Training Centre, gave a presentation on the subject.
Colonel General Andrei Serdyukov, Chief of the CSTO Joint Staff, made a report on measures for joint training of the CSTO collective security system's control bodies and formations of forces and means in 2024 and planned measures for 2025.
The members of the Military Committee have considered issues related to the organization of air defense in the CSTO Central Asian collective security region and the further development of the CSTO Collective Aviation Forces, information on which was reported by Lieutenant General Anatoly Yakovlev, Head of the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces) Application Planning Department - Deputy Head of the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces) Application Planning and Training Centre of the CSTO Joint Staff.
The meeting heard reports by representatives of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on the experience of the use by the armed forces of the Russian Federation of EW forces and means and strike drones, which the Military Committee recommended should be taken into account when conducting joint trainings in the CSTO format.
Summing up the results of the meeting of the CSTO Military Committee, the Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation - First Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, Army General Valery Gerasimov, noted that it had been held in a businesslike and constructive manner and that its results would contribute to the progressive development and strengthening of the military security of the Organization's states.
