On August 31, 2026, on the sidelines of the SCO Summit in Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic, CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov met with CIS Secretary General Sergey Lebedev.
A meeting of the Working Group of the Coordination Council of Heads of Competent Authorities on Combating Illicit Drug Trafficking (CCHN) on organizing international anti-drug operations within the CSTO framework was held in Aktau, Republic of Kazakhstan.
The Open International Youth Sambo Festival of National Teams of the CSTO Member States was held at the International Sambo Center in Moscow.
On August 17–19, at the invitation of Colonel General Alexander Manilov, Chairman of the Coordination Service of the Council of Border Troops Commanders of the CIS, a delegation of the CSTO Joint Staff headed by Colonel General Andrey Serdyukov took part in international events held in the area of responsibility of the Border Directorate of the Russian Federal Security Service for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region.
On August 14, consultations were held via videoconference at the CSTO Joint Staff with representatives of relevant ministries and agencies of the CSTO member states on organizing joint training activities for command and control bodies and formations of the CSTO collective security system in 2027.
Acting CSTO Deputy Secretary General takes part in the conference “Central Asia – the Core of the SCO: A Space of Peace and Shared Development”
12.06.2026
On June 12, 2026, a conference entitled “Central Asia – the Core of the SCO: A Space of Peace and Shared Development” was held in Dushanbe under the auspices of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Tajikistan. Acting CSTO Deputy Secretary General Samat Ordabayev took part in the event.
The participants were unanimous in their view that Central Asia is currently becoming an example of good-neighborly and mutually beneficial relations among sovereign states, and that the key task is to preserve the region’s sustainable development.
In his remarks, Samat Ordabayev highlighted the growing role of regional organizations in maintaining international security and emphasized the positive contribution of the CSTO and the SCO to stability in Central Asia.
The Acting Deputy Secretary General also noted that a successful example of interaction among regional organizations is the consistent implementation of the Roadmap for Cooperation between the CSTO, the SCO, and the CIS for 2026–2028, signed by the Secretaries General of the three organizations in Beijing in September 2025.
