August 23, 2022
A table-top exercise under the auspices of the CIS ATC dedicated to organization of coordination of the interested units of the CIS competent authorities during the CIS joint anti-terrorism drill “Commonwealth-Anti-Terror 2022” was held in Moscow on August 23, 2022.
The event brought together representatives of the competent authorities from Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, Coordinating Service of the Border Troops Commanders’ Council, Secretariat of the Defense Ministers' Council, Secretariat of the Council of Financial Intelligence Units Heads, Russian State University of Oil and Gas named after I.M. Gubkin.
The CIS ATC Head Colonel General E.S. Sysoev addressed the event participants and noted an importance of the exercise as a preparatory phase of the forthcoming drill.
The table-top exercise agenda included:
content and algorithms of working out trainings tasks of the drill;
procedure of organization of joint actions of the competent authorities during coordinated search operations aimed to identify and suppress activities of terrorist groups attempting to commit terrorist attacks on critical infrastructure facilities of the Commonwealth states;
capacities of collective-use information systems for verification operations in respect of the objects of mutual operational interest, as well as use of promising technologies and new methods of data transmission for information exchange between the interacting units.
The speakers also covered the issues of contemporary challenges and threats posed by international terrorist organizations, situation at the Commonwealth borders and its development trends, cybersecurity of critical infrastructure facilities of the industry and their anti-terrorist protection against unmanned aerial vehicles, capacities of the International Data Bank of Counter-Terrorism, identification and prevention of terrorism financing.
The CIS joint anti-terrorism drill “Commonwealth-Anti-Terror 2022” will take place in September this year in the territory of 7 states, namely Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.
