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 meeting of the CSTO Working Group of Coordination Council of the Heads of Competent Authorities for Countering the Illicit Drug Trafficking took place in Yerevan
23.08.2019
In Yerevan, under the chairmanship of the First Deputy Head of the Main Directorate for Drug Trafficking Control of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, Kirill Smurov, a meeting of the Working Group of the Coordinating Council of the Heads of the competent authorities on countering drug trafficking of the CSTO member states was held. The event was attended by representatives of law enforcement agencies of Russia, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, as well as the Secretariat of the Collective Security Treaty Organization.
The first deputy chief of the Police of the Republic of Armenia Arman Sargsyan delivered a welcoming speech. Then, the forum participants discussed the state and dynamics of the development of the drug situation in the CSTO member states. In addition, the results of the tactical and special exercises of the anti-drug special units “Thunder-2019” ("Grom-2019") held in Kyrgyzstan were summed up.
