October 28, 2015
The Head of the CIS Anti-Terrorism Center Colonel General of Police A. Novikov has spoken at the meeting.
A draft of the next Program of cooperation of the CIS member-states in combating terrorism and other violent manifestations of extremism for 2017-2019 as well as an Agreement on exchange of information related to combating terrorism and other violent manifestations of extremism and their financing prepared by the CIS ATC have been submitted for approval of the Council of the Heads of Security Bodies and Special Services of the CIS member-states (SORB).
The meeting participants have reviewed issues of practical implementation of the decisions made at the meeting of the Council of the CIS Heads of States, which took place on 16 October 2015 in the Republic of Kazakhstan, with regard to joint counteraction to the terrorist threat and have defined ways of improvement of the cooperation mechanisms in identifying persons who had undergone ideological and sabotage-terrorist training in Syria and Afghanistan.
The SORB members have reached a consensus of the necessity to concentrate joint efforts on identifying and eliminating fighters' transfer and weapons supply pipelines as well as terrorist financing sources and to focus special attention of the Commonwealth security bodies and special services on revealing and liquidating sleeper terrorist cells and preventing operation of recruiters facilitating travel of citizens of our countries abroad to the areas where international bandit groups are active.
A draft of the next Program of cooperation of the CIS member-states in combating terrorism and other violent manifestations of extremism for 2017-2019 as well as an Agreement on exchange of information related to combating terrorism and other violent manifestations of extremism and their financing prepared by the CIS ATC have been submitted for approval of the Council of the Heads of Security Bodies and Special Services of the CIS member-states (SORB).
The meeting participants have reviewed issues of practical implementation of the decisions made at the meeting of the Council of the CIS Heads of States, which took place on 16 October 2015 in the Republic of Kazakhstan, with regard to joint counteraction to the terrorist threat and have defined ways of improvement of the cooperation mechanisms in identifying persons who had undergone ideological and sabotage-terrorist training in Syria and Afghanistan.
The SORB members have reached a consensus of the necessity to concentrate joint efforts on identifying and eliminating fighters' transfer and weapons supply pipelines as well as terrorist financing sources and to focus special attention of the Commonwealth security bodies and special services on revealing and liquidating sleeper terrorist cells and preventing operation of recruiters facilitating travel of citizens of our countries abroad to the areas where international bandit groups are active.
