28 April marks the Day of the CSTO Joint Staff. It should be recalled that on 28 April 2003, in Dushanbe, the Collective Security Council, guided by the need to establish a military staff body responsible for implementing the military component of the Collective Security Treaty, adopted the Decision “On the Establishment of the Joint Staff of the Collective Security Treaty Organization.”
On 27 April 2026, within the framework of the International Scientific and Practical Conference “Contours of a New Architecture of Collective Security: Current Issues of Information and Analytical Partnership within the CSTO,” held at MGIMO University of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, a round table entitled “Eurasian Analytical Platform: New Approaches in a New Geopolitical Reality” took place. During the event, Head of the Information and Public Relations Department of the CSTO Secretariat Yuriy Shuvalov delivered a presentation on “The Eurasian Analytical Network: A New Cognitive Architecture of Collective Security.”
On March 1, in Almaty, the results of the international anti-drug operation of the CSTO “Channel” - “Channel Center” will take place
28.02.2019On March 1, 2019, at the site of the Central Asian Regional Information Coordination Center for Combating Illicit Trafficking in Narcotic Drugs, Psychotropic Substances and their Precursors (Abay Avenue, 52) at 11.30 local time, the next stage of the international anti-drug operation “Channel” - Channel Center.
The meeting will be attended by representatives of law enforcement agencies of the Republic of Armenia, the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Russian Federation, the Republic of Tajikistan, the Secretariat of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, representatives of observer states and international organizations.
The operation is aimed at identifying illicit trafficking in synthetic drugs and new types of psychoactive substances, as well as blocking routes for the illicit transportation of drugs in regions directly adjacent to Afghanistan. Taking into account the effectiveness of annual coordinated events, it has been given the status of a permanent regional anti-drug operation (CSTO).
As part of the previous stage of the international special anti-drug operation "Channel" - "Red Barkhan", the main activities of which took place from 10 to 14 September 2018 in the territory of Kazakhstan more than 11 tons of 132 kg of drugs were seized from illegal circulation, including 6 tons of 533 kg of opium and 88 kg of heroin.
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