From June 1 to 3, Saratov (Russian Federation) is hosting a series of events involving the member states of the Collective Security Treaty Organization aimed at strengthening the collective response system to biological threats.
On June 1, 2026, consultations at the deputy foreign minister level of the CSTO member states were held in Moscow.
On May 28, 2026, CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov took part in the International Security Forum held under the auspices of the Security Council of the Russian Federation. More than 150 delegations from 120 countries participated in the event.
On May 26 of this year, a round table entitled “35 Years of the Commonwealth of Independent States: Results, Tasks, and Prospects” was held at the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation. The event was attended by heads of integration structures in the post-Soviet space, representatives of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as well as representatives of the embassies of CIS countries in Russia. Opening remarks were delivered by the moderator, Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on International Affairs Grigory Karasin.
On May 26, 2026, a regular meeting of the CSTO Committee of Secretaries of Security Councils (CSSC) was held in Moscow under the chairmanship of the Russian side, with the participation of CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov. The participants conducted a substantive exchange of views on issues related to strengthening security in the CSTO area of responsibility.
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.
