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.
RIA Novosti: " The CSTO Secretary General agrees with Guterres regarding "Riders of the Apocalypse"
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MOSCOW, Jan 24 - RIA Novosti. The CSTO Secretary General Stanislav Zas shares the assessment of UN Secretary General António Guterres regarding the current geopolitical situation in the world that there are currently four “riders of the Apocalypse”.
Earlier Mr. Guterres said that there are four “riders of the Apocalypse” threatening the world: the first rider is “the highest geostrategic tension,” the second is the climate crisis. The third "rider" he called "growing global mistrust", and the last "rider", according to the UN Secretary General, is the "dark side of the digital world."
“I consider Mr. Guterres’s assessments to be adequate, reflecting the concern about the state of our civilization, the world. He spoke about the“ real threat of the Great Rift. ”In my opinion, the UN Secretary General warned about the threat of a third world war,” said Mr. Zas.
