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 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.
