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.
Press conference of the Chief of the Joint Staff of the CSTO, Anatoly Sidorov, dedicated to the upcoming in October 2017 operational and strategic exercises "Combat Brotherhood 2017"
21.09.2017September 26, 2017 at 1:00 pm the press room was held at the Russia-Today International Press Center (Presidential Hall) conference with video connection sites in Astana, Bishkek, Yerevan, Minsk, Chief of the Joint Staff of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, Colonel-General Anatoly Sidorov on the eve of the start of joint exercises of intelligence units of the armed forces of the CSTO member states of the CSTO Collective Operational Response Forces CSTO "Interaction 2017" and Mirotvo iCal forces of the CSTO "Indestructible Brotherhood-2017", which will be held from 3 to 20 October 2017 in the territory of Russia, Armenia and Kazakhstan.
For the first time, all the exercises will be held in the framework of the single concept of the operational-strategic doctrine "Combat Brotherhood 2017".
The head of the CSTO Joint Staff spoke about the goals and objectives of the exercises, during which it is planned to work out the organization and conduct of intelligence, a joint operation to localize the armed conflict in the Caucasus region of collective security, as well as training and conducting peacekeeping operations by the CSTO Collective Peacekeeping Forces.
The exercises are conducted in accordance with the Plan of joint activities of operational and combat training of command and control forces and forces of the CSTO collective security system for 2017.
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