On 24 May 2017, a Joint EAG/CIS ATC/ITMCFM Workshop in Co-Operation with CTED on the Exchange of Best Practices in Identifying Foreign Terrorist-Fighters and Applying Targeted Financial Sanctions was held in Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic within the frameworks of the 26th Plenary Meeting of the Eurasian Group on Combating Money Laundering and Financing of Terrorism.
The Workshop was attended by representatives of special services of the CIS member-states, and financial intelligence units of the EAG member-states, EAG observers including Armenia, Italy, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, USA, Turkey, France, Montenegro, FATF, UNODC, UN CTC, IMF, RATS SCO, Egmont Group, as well as guest experts from Australia, Great Britain, Canada, France, Belgium and UN SC 1267 Committee Monitoring Team.
As a follow-up of the Workshop an Outcome document was approved which inter alia recommended the EAG and CIS member-states to continue facilitating development of legal co-operation in combating financing of terrorism and extremism, and utilize capacities of the financial intelligence units of the EAG and CIS in the competent authorities’ special operations aimed at search of persons wanted for terrorist offences.
