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.
On May 19, 2026, an international round table on the topic “CSTO: together for strengthening international peace and stability” was held at the Hofburg Palace in Vienna, Austria, on the sidelines of the OSCE Forum for Security Co-operation in Europe.
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.
The Head of the Department for Countering Challenges and Threats of the CSTO Secretariat took part in the Annual Conference on the Review of Security Issues
26.06.2025
Safar Umarzoda, Head of the Department for Countering Challenges and Threats of the CSTO Secretariat, took part in a special event (side-event) on "Countering Radicalization leading to terrorism and Extremism" organized by the Russian Federation on the margins of the OSCE Annual Conference on Security Review, where he reported on the measures taken by the CSTO on countering terrorism and extremism, and willingness to share the experience gained.
In his speech, Safar Umarzoda emphasized the global nature of the terrorist threat, which has intensified against the background of geopolitical turbulence. He emphasized the role of regional organizations, noting: "Strengthening regional stability... Regional organizations are able to form an alternative to inefficient or outdated models of relationships and create new, more effective security mechanisms." Practical measures of the CSTO were presented, including regular operations ("Channel", "PROXY", "Illegal", "Mercenary") aimed at suppressing channels of financing, recruitment and neutralizing the resource base of terrorism. The CSTO's readiness to share its accumulated experience, especially in the context of the Afghan crisis, was emphasized, and international and regional structures were called upon to actively cooperate.
