BIMSTEC Secretary General, H.E. Indra Mani Pandey, addressed the the 13th Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, held in Vienna during 19-23 October 2026. In his remarks, Secretary General highlighted the progress made in regional cooperation under BIMSTEC to address the threat posed by the shared security challenges, including cybersecurity, terrorism, radicalization, human trafficking, illicit drug trafficking, money laundering, maritime crime etc, including through capacity-building, information and intelligence sharing and coordinated action. Secretary General emphasised the importance of cooperation between BIMSTEC and UNODC and called for enhanced cooperation through technical assistance, capacity-building and the exchange of good practices to strengthen institutional capacities and promote coordinated regional responses by the BIMSTEC member States to transnational organised crime.