On November 11, 2026, a session of the CSTO Collective Security Council was held under the chairmanship of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
On November 11, 2026, a meeting was held at the Kremlin between CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov and President of the Russian Federation and Chairman of the CSTO Collective Security Council Vladimir Putin.
On November 10, a discussion session entitled “Indivisible Biological Security in the CSTO Area” was held at the World Trade Center as part of the International Forum on Collective Security.
On November 10, a discussion session entitled “The CSTO: New Challenges and Prospects for Regional Cooperation” was held at the World Trade Center as part of the International Forum on Collective Security.
The traditional 14th Meeting of Senior Administrative Officials of the CSTO, CIS and SCO was held in Moscow on November 10, 2026. It was attended by CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov, CIS Secretary General Sergey Lebedev and SCO Secretary General Nurlan Yermekbayev.
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.
