On May 19, 2026, Acting CSTO Deputy Secretary General Samat Ordabayev met in Vienna with Director of the Division for Operations of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime Bo Mathiasen.
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On May 18, CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov, together with the heads of the diplomatic missions of the CSTO member states in Vienna, took part in a solemn wreath and flower-laying ceremony at the monument to the Soviet Liberator Soldier at Schwarzenbergplatz.
On May 18, 2026, a meeting was held in Vienna between Acting CSTO Deputy Secretary General Samat Ordabayev and Coordinator of the Transnational Threats Department of the OSCE Secretariat Elena Kupchina.
On May 18, 2026, a meeting was held in Vienna between the CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov and OSCE Secretary General Feridun Sinirlioğlu.
In Dushanbe, the working group discussed the creation of a unified air defense system in the Central Asian region
13.02.2019
On February 12-13, a meeting of the working group was held in Dushanbe, under the leadership of the Deputy Chief of the Joint Staff of the CSTO Lieutenant-General of Aviation Nurlan Ormanbetov, to discuss the creation of a joint air defense system in the Central Asian region.
The meeting was attended by representatives of the defense ministries of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Russian Federation, the Republic of Tajikistan, the CSTO Joint Staff and the basic research organizations of the CSTO in the field of air defense and missile defense research.
Head of the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces) Planning Directorate - Deputy Head of the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces) Planning and Training Center of the CSTO Lieutenant General Anatoly Yakovlev in his speech noted that the measures taken are aimed at finding ways to implement the decisions of the heads of state on organizing air defense CSTO, including the possibility of adapting the Joint Air Defense System of the CIS member states to solve problems in the interests of the CSTO.
Following the results of the joint work, the meeting participants discussed and found it advisable to recommend the CSTO Joint Headquarters together with the defense departments of the Organization's member states to continue work on this issue. The meeting participants also agreed on the need to conduct comprehensive research work involving the basic research organizations of the CSTO in the field of research on air defense and missile defense, the results of which will form the basis for the development of relevant regulatory legal documents.
