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.
An extended meeting was held to finalize the draft CSTO Special Interstate Policy for strengthening sections of the Tajik-Afghan Border
01.03.2024
On 27 February - 1 March 2024, in Moscow (Russian Federation), a joint meeting of representatives of interested ministries and agencies of the CSTO member states and members of the Working Group to finalize the draft CSTO Special Interstate Policy for strengthening sections of the Tajik-Afghan Border was held under the chairmanship of the Tajik side.
Alexei Shevtsov, the Deputy Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, and Valery Semerikov, the CSTO Deputy Secretary General, addressed the meeting participants.
In his speech, Valery Semerikov expressed confidence that, given the participation of the representative delegations, there was every opportunity to reach agreed decisions on the draft Policy.
Following the results of the meeting, the draft Policy and the draft decisions on it by the CSTO bodies were finalized and an agreement was reached to submit the above draft documents to the CSTO Permanent Council for consideration in order to take a decision on sending them to the CSTO member states for additional coordination.
