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.
The CSTO Deputy Secretary General Valery Semerikov took part in the 87th meeting of the Council of Border Troops Commanders
19.10.2023
On 19 October, in Yerevan (the Republic of Armenia), the regular 87th session of the Council of the Border Troops Commanders was held.
The meeting was attended by delegations of border agencies of the CIS member states, heads of cooperating competent bodies of the Commonwealth and working structures of international organizations.
The meeting analyzed the situation on the external borders of the CIS member states and discussed the results of the activities aimed at forming a system to ensure collective border security.
Valery Semerikov, the CSTO Deputy Secretary General, spoke on the topic "Challenges and threats to the security of the CSTO member states in the CSTO area of responsibility and measures to neutralize them". Valery Semerikov expressed his gratitude to the border guard agencies of the CSTO member states for the contribution they were making through their participation to enhancing the effectiveness of special operations conducted in the CSTO format.
As margin notes of the 87th meeting of the Council of Border Troops Commanders, Valery Semerikov held working meetings with the Chairman of the National Security Service of the Republic of Armenia Armen Abazyan, the heads of the border services of the CSTO member states and the Head of the CIS ATC Evgeny Sysoyev.
