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 Kyrgyz Republic hosted a meeting of the CSTO Coordination Council of the Heads of the Competent Authorities for Countering the Illicit Drug Trafficking Working Group with the participation of the GANC of the MIA of Russia
30.03.2022The Kyrgyz Republic hosted a meeting of the CSTO Coordination Council of the Heads of the Competent Authorities for Countering the Illicit Drug Trafficking Working Group with the participation of the GANC of the MIA of Russia
Website of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, 29 March 18:00
Today, in Osh, the Kyrgyz Republic, under the chairmanship of Kirill Smurov, First Deputy Head of the General Administration of Narcotics Control of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, a meeting of the Working Group on the organization of anti-drug operations and other activities within the competence of Coordination Council of the Heads of the Competent Authorities for Countering the Illicit Drug Trafficking of the CSTO member States was held.
The event was attended by representatives of law enforcement agencies of Russia, the Republic of Armenia, the Republic Belarus, the Republic Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Republic Tajikistan, and the CSTO Secretariat.
The meeting participants have discussed issues of counteraction to illegal narcotics trafficking in regions of collective security. They noted the necessity of close coordination of efforts of competent bodies of CSTO member States in this sphere.
As a result of the meeting, it was decided to continue work on the implementation of the Plan of Coordination Council of the Heads of the Competent Authorities for Countering the Illicit Drug Trafficking Main Activities of the CSTO member States for 2022.
