DUSHANBE, November 12, 2015, Asia-Plus — Border services of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) member nations are seriously concerned over the situation along the CIS’s external borders with Afghanistan where some 4,500 terrorists are reportedly concentrated, a senior CIS military official told reporters in the Kazakh capital, Astana, on November 12.
Speaking at a briefing within a session of the CIS Council of the Border Troops Commanders (CBRC) in Astana, Alexander Manilov, the chief of the CBRC’s Coordination Service of CIS, reportedly noted today that all leaders of border services of the CSI member nations are greatly alarmed by the situation that is developing not only along the CIS external borders, but also in Syria and other states, connected with the terrorist activity of Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and other terrorist organizations.
“According to estimates that concern the Afghan borders directly with CIS member nations, some 4,500 terrorists are concentrated in near-border areas of that country,” the senior CIS military official was quoted as saying by
TASS
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He noted that Tajikistan was receiving assistance from the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), and the decision was also taken to assist the republic within the CIS framework. “The same assistance is rendered nowadays to our colleagues in Kyrgyzstan for the strengthening of its border security,” Manilov said.
“A program for strengthening these borders has been worked out. That is why we are now ready to adequately rebuff those who attempt to destabilize the situation along the CIS external borders,” he added.
