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.
Interfax - The Head of the CSTO Staff announced the creation of NATO 12 thousandth group in Europe
31.01.2020
https://www.interfax.ru/world/693331
Moscow. January 30. INTERFAX.RU - NATO is building up strike potential in Europe and this maintains a high level of military-political tension, said Colonel-General Anatoly Sidorov, the Head of the Joint Staff of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO).
“In fact, for several years now, in the immediate vicinity of the CSTO member states, a multinational force grouping has been maintained and is growing, comprising more than 12 thousand military personnel and about 700 units of military equipment. Most of these forces and equipment are deployed in Poland and countries of the Baltic, " Mr. Sidorov said at a news conference in Moscow on Thursday.
He said that NATO is building up its strike and offensive capabilities in Europe and is working out plans for offensive operations. According to Mr. Sidorov, it "creates the prerequisites for maintaining a high level of military-political tension in the European region and, as a result, for growing threats to security to the CSTO member states."
The CSTO representative said that in Europe, the North Atlantic Alliance "is actively modernizing its air bases and other infrastructure, aimed at expanding the capabilities to receive combat aircraft and multinational military contingents."
“The capabilities of the infrastructure of Germany, Bulgaria, Romania, Poland and the Baltic countries to receive and deploy foreign troops are being tested,” Mr. Sidorov said.
The CSTO includes six states: Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Tajikistan.
