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.
Issues of improving the communications system were discussed at a working meeting of the heads of the defense communications management bodies of the CSTO member states
10.04.2025
On 8-10 April, a working meeting of the heads of the defense communications management bodies of the CSTO member states is being held in Bishkek, the capital of the Kyrgyz Republic. Delegations from the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Russian Federation, the Republic of Tajikistan, the CSTO Joint Staff and industry representatives are taking part in the meeting.
In his video message to the participants in the working meeting, Colonel General Andrei Serdyukov, Chief of the CSTO Joint Staff, drew attention to the need for joint efforts to prepare decisions at the interstate level that would help to improve the command and control system of coalition groupings of troops and to form common views and approaches to the development of the communications system as the technical basis of the command and control system. He also noted that targeted work in this area in the Joint Staff was organized and carried out in close cooperation with the defense departments of states.
In the course of the working meeting, the meeting participants discussed issues related to the interfacing of equipment and means of communication, taking into account the experience of contemporary local conflicts, the improvement of the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces) communications system and information cooperation. Particular attention is being paid to the consideration of the use in the contingents of CSTO Troops (Collective Forces) of promising means of communication that provide fundamentally new possibilities for organizing communications.
The working meeting resulted in the adoption of proposals aimed at improving the functioning of the communication system, and defined areas for improving the technical basis of the CSTO interstate information interaction system.
