The Commonwealth of Independent States
Anti – Terrorism Center

71st meeting of the Council of the Commanders of the Border Forces was held in Sochi. The meeting was attended by the CIS ATC Deputy Head colonel Abdyraev M.K.

Special focus of the meeting was on promotion of security of the external borders of the Commonwealth over the medium term, including development in the situation on the external borders of the Central Asian states and joint measures aimed at its stabilization with due regard to "Factor-2014".

The Meeting participants discussed joint border operations and operational and preventive measures to be conducted in 2014, reviewed a draft Program of cooperation in strengthening border security on the external borders in 2016-2020, coordinated approaches to cooperation of the border agencies of the Commonwealth member-states with international organization in the filed of border security.