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 12th Southern Information Security Forum “Infoforum Sochi 2026” is taking place in Sochi, Russia, from June 30 to July 3. On July 1, the Forum's plenary session brought together representatives of federal and regional authorities, regulatory bodies, leading companies, and international organizations to discuss current challenges in the protection of critical infrastructure, the development of artificial intelligence, and international cooperation.
TASS: The CSTO Acting Secretary General called for the creation of rules of conduct under the UN auspices in the information space. Collective efforts in the area of information security should be joined, Valery Semerikov said.
18.07.2019VIENNA, July 17. /TASS/. The Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) considers it necessary to join efforts in the area of information security in order to promptly develop, under the UN auspices, rules and standards of conduct in the information space. This was announced on Wednesday by the CSTO Acting Secretary General Valery Semerikov. On the OSCE Forum for Security Cooperation he made a statement on “The CSTO activities in support of the OSCE commitments to ensure politico-military aspects of security”.
“We consider it necessary to join collective efforts in the area of information security. We attach particular importance to the promotion of the development and early adoption of universal rules, standards and principles of responsible conduct in the information space under the UN auspices,” Semerikov said.
He also informed that the CSTO is working on the formation of a Single list of organizations recognized as terrorist in the territory of their member states. The draft “Plan of collective actions of the CSTO member states in implementing the UN Global anti-terrorism strategy for 2019-2021” is undergoing the established procedure for approval by the CSTO supreme governing bodies.
"We consider it important to step up the OSCE efforts to counter new transnational and transboundary challenges and threats, especially terrorism based on the "Code of Conduct for a Peace Free of Terrorism ", which was initiated by the Republic of Kazakhstan at the opening of the 73rd session of the UN General Assembly and which participants are already 82 states ," noted the CSTO Acting Secretary General .
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