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 CSTO has agreed on Plan for a regional operation to counter illegal migration in 2025
26.03.2025
On 26 March 2025, a meeting of the International Headquarters of the CSTO regional operation “Illegal” was held under the chairmanship of Valentina L. Kazakova, Lieutenant General of Police, Secretary of the Coordinating Council of Heads of Competent Bodies of the CSTO Member States on Combating Illegal Migration and Head of the GUVM MIA of the Russian Federation.
Valery Semerikov, the CSTO Deputy Secretary General, took part in the meeting and made a welcoming speech to the participants.
During the meeting, the heads and members of the national headquarters of the Organization's member states for the preparation and conduct of the operation, together with the participating representatives of the Anti-Terrorist Center and the Coordination Service of the Council of Commanders of the Border Troops of the CIS member states, as well as representatives of other interacting services of the CSTO member states, discussed the concept of the operation under the conditional name “Illegal-2025” and agreed on the timing of the stages of active measures in the current year, and clarified the procedure for the implementation of the operation.
