June 21, 2024
The CIS ATC’s delegation led by its Head Evgeny Sysoev took part in the 88th meeting of the Border Troops Commanders’ Council (SKPV) in Brest, Republic of Belarus on June 21, 2024.
The event was attended by the delegations of Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, SKPV Coordinating Service, CIS Executive Committee, Office for Fight on Organized Crime and Other Dangerous Types of Crime in the CIS territory, CSTO Secretariat and SCO RATS Executive Committee.
The meeting offered an opportunity to analyze the situation developing at the external borders of the CIS member-states, assess joint special border operations “West-2024” and “Shekara-2024”, review the issues of their conduct in the North-Western, Western and Central-Asian directions in 2025. The participants also discussed humanitarian cooperation, joint scientific research and educational efforts.
The CIS ATC’s Head in his statement assessed the situation in countering terrorism and extremism in the CIS area as reviewed by the 54th meeting of the Council of Heads of CIS Security Agencies in Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic in May this year.
Besides, Evgeny Sysoev stressed that the Center gives importance to further strengthening and expanding cooperation of the competent authorities and to combining efforts of the CIS agencies engaged in coordination of the security sphere.
An example of this is the CIS joint anti-terrorism exercise “East-Antiterror 2024” to be conducted in the Republic of Uzbekistan in September 2024. The exercise will cover mastering of, including in cooperation with the SKPV, new elements such as counteraction to transborder movement of fighters, cyber-attacks on information systems of critical infrastructure facilities, use of digital funds to finance terrorist activity.
The exercise will be preceded by a CIS counter-terrorism conference which for the first time ever will be held jointly with an international conference of SCO RATS.
Following its meeting SKPV took 14 decisions aimed at further improvement of multilateral border cooperation.
