Six CIS Members Vow to Enhance Anti-Terrorism CooperationMembers of the CIS Collective Security Pact Sunday vowed to set up an anti-terrorism center at the end of a two-day secretaries conference of the security committees of the pact held in Dushanbe, Tajikistan.According to an Interfax report monitored, participants discussed measures to enhance the cooperation among the security committees in the CIS. They placed emphasis on drawing up anti-terrorism and anti-extremism regulations and an ordinance on establishing a joint anti-terrorism center. As for the international anti-drug issue, they agreed that illegal dealing in drugs threatens the social security of every CIS member. They decided to take more coordination measures to crack down on drug trafficking. Presided over by Vladimir Zemsky, secretary general of a collective security committee of the CIS, the conference was participated by secretaries of security committees from Russia, Kazakhstan, Kirghizstan, Armenia, Belarus and representatives from Uzbekistan. The CIS collective security pact was signed by the above six countries in Tashkent on May 15, 1992, but Uzbekistan dropped out last May. Emomali Sharipovich Rakhmonov, president of Tajikistan, met the participants before the conference started. Enditem |
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