85 years ago, the Great Patriotic War began. The war machine of Nazi Germany launched a treacherous attack against Soviet cities and villages and committed unprecedented atrocities against Soviet citizens. The peoples of the Soviet Union rose to defend their common Motherland and paid an enormous price for peace, freedom, and the right to live on their own land.
On June 17–18, 2026, CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov visited sections of the State Border of the Republic of Belarus with Poland and Lithuania.
On June 18, 2026, the 24th Meeting of the Interstate Commission for Military-Economic Cooperation of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (ICMEC CSTO) was held in Minsk on the sidelines of the 3rd International Security Industry Exhibition “National Security. Belarus 2026”. The meeting was chaired by Dmitry Stefanovich, Head of the Belarusian National Section of the ICMEC and Deputy Chairman of the State Authority for Military Industry of the Republic of Belarus.
On June 18, 2026, the 2nd Military-Economic Conference of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, entitled “Development of Cooperation among the Defense Industries (Military-Industrial Complexes) of the CSTO Member States: 20 Years of Practical Cooperation”, was held in Minsk on the sidelines of the 3rd International Security Industry Exhibition “National Security. Belarus 2026”. The event brought together representatives of relevant ministries, agencies, defense enterprises, and other institutions and organizations of the CSTO member states.
The CSTO Deputy Secretary General Piotr Tsikhanouski took part in the OSCE Annual Security Review Conference, which was held in Vienna from June 25-27
27.06.2019
On June 25 - 27 of this year the regular OSCE Annual Security Review Conference was held in Vienna. This year, its theme was defined as “In the name of people, dialogue and stability - strengthening comprehensive security in the OSCE region”.
The meeting brought together representatives of diplomatic departments and research centers of the majority of 57 states participating in this largest regional international organization and 11 states of its partners, as well as officials of relevant international organizations to discuss topical issues and challenges in the field of security and the role that the OSCE could play to overcome that problems.
The conference was opened by the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Slovak Minister of Foreign and European Affairs Miroslav Lajčák. Then, in the course of six meetings, the participants thoroughly discussed various aspects of security and stability in the region. The delegation of the Secretariat of the Collective Security Treaty Organization headed by its Deputy Secretary General Piotr Tsikhanouski took an active part in the work of the Conference.
The head of the CSTO delegation spoke at a meeting on the control of non-nuclear weapons and confidence- and security-building measures, stating with concern that the military-political situation in the OSCE region continues to evolve in a negative scenario. In this regard, he drew the attention of the Conference participants to the Open Appeal to the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Member States of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization on Strengthening Mutual Confidence and Development of Cooperation, adopted by the Council of Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the CSTO on May 22, 2019. Recalling the content of the document, in which the ministers, guided by the provisions of the OSCE Security Platform, call on the heads of diplomatic departments of NATO member states to take a number of concrete joint steps as a matter of priority, Piotr Tsikhanouski asked his colleagues to help start such a constructive dialogue.
The CSTO Deputy Secretary General also spoke at a meeting on transnational threats. He informed the participants of the meeting about the painstaking daily work carried out in the Organization’s format in the priority direction for it to combat all types of contemporary challenges and threats, including terrorism and related extremism, drug and arms trafficking, cross-border organized crime, illegal migration, the use of information telecommunications technology for criminal purposes. The successful development of cooperation in resolving these tasks between the CSTO and the OSCE, the needs for further efforts to create a broad antiterrorist front of all international and regional specialized organizations with a central coordinating role of the UN was noted.
Interviews on the Conference confirmed the growing understanding in the international expert community of this consistently conducted CSTO line, the prospects of the Organization’s efforts to improve the dialogue aimed at strengthening security and stability in the region at the OSCE sites.
