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.
Sputnik Uzbekistan: Significant silence: NATO does not want to cooperate with CSTO
01.11.2019"Sputnik Uzbekistan": October 31. The CSTO did not wait for a response from the Alliance to the proposal to strengthen trust between organizations and to cooperate in the fight against world terrorism.
The Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) has not yet received an official response from NATO to a proposal made in May, 2019, on cooperation to build confidence and jointly fight terrorism, said the organization’s Acting Secretary General Valery Semerikov at the International Conference "On the role and the nature of the interaction of international and regional organizations in the fight against international terrorism ”, that held on October 30 in Moscow at the GlavUpDK Cultural Center.
At the same time, in the comments, various interviews, and speeches of NATO officials various judgments are made. But it all comes down to the fact that they do not see the point in strengthening such ties, the CSTO believes.
“I think that comments are unnecessary here. The only thing I can say is that this position is clear to everyone today, and it is clear that it is counterproductive and short-sighted,” he added.Read more: https://uz.sputniknews.ru/video/20191031/12713976/NATO-ne-khochet-sotrudnichat-s-ODKB.html
Earlier, NATO Deputy Secretary General Rose Gottemoeller said that the Alliance sees no reason to create an additional channel of interaction with Russia at the level of the CSTO.
