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.
First consultations of representatives of legal services of foreign ministries of the CSTO member States on legal aspects of the Organization's activities were held
06.09.2022
The CSTO Secretary General Stanislav Zas addressed the participants of the event, noting the symbolism of holding consultations in the year of the 30th anniversary of the signing of the Collective Security Treaty and the 20th anniversary of the establishment of the CSTO. Stanislav Zas stressed that during these years member States established an extensive legal basis for cooperation in all spheres of the Organization's activities, which was based on 60 international agreements, 335 decisions of the Collective Security Council and almost 1.5 thousand legal acts of other CSTO bodies.
In the course of the event, a number of topical international legal issues were considered in order to improve the legal framework for cooperation within the CSTO format. As a result of the consultations, it was recommended to continue the Secretariat's work on the digitalization of the legal and contractual framework for cooperation, as well as to prepare proposals to update the methodological recommendations for drafting international treaties concluded within the framework of the Collective Security Treaty Organization.
