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 V meeting of the Interstate Working Group on the Creation of the Unified System of Technical Coverage of Railways of the CSTO Member States was concluded
Today, on June 20, the V meeting of the Interstate Working Group on the Creation of the Unified System of Technical Coverage of Railways of the Member States of the Collective Security Treaty Organization was concluded in the Kyrgyz Republic.
During the meeting, in the village of Chok-Tal, Issyk-Kul oblast, representatives of the republic of Belarus, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Republic of Tajikistan and Russia heard reports from members of the group on the results of work on planning and organizing measures to provide technical cover for the railroads of CSTO member states. In a constructive manner, the members of the interstate working group have exchanged views on resolving the most important issues of technical coverage of railroads and discussed the prospects for further close cooperation between the ministries and departments concerned in order to organize uninterrupted operation of the railway transport of the CSTO member states.
The V meeting of the Interstate Working Group on the Creation of a Unified System of Technical Coverage of Railways of the Member States of the Collective Security Treaty Organization was concluded with the signing of a protocol by representatives of the CSTO member states.
