Tajik capital is hosting a session of the CIS Council of Interior Ministers today.
Interior ministers of Azerbaijan (Ramil Usubov), Belarus (Igor Shunevich), Kazakhstan (Kalmukhanbet Kasymov), Kyrgyzstan (Ulan Isroilov), Russia (Vladimir Kolokoltsev) and Uzbekistan (Abdusalom Azizov) have arrived in Dushanbe for participation in the meeting, according to the Tajik Interior Ministry press center.
They are expected to discuss state and prospects of further expansion of cooperation between the CIS member nations in combating crime.
The meeting participants will also discuss issues related to implementation of decisions on combating international terrorism and other manifestations of extremism as well as drug trafficking that were adopted at the previous session.
The CIS Interior Ministers Council was founded in 1996 to expand cooperation between the CIS member nations in crime prevention and law enforcement. The Council members include representatives of Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Ukraine. Turkmenistan partakes in some of the Council’s meetings.
Established on December 8, 1991 after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) is a regional organization. It now consists of Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Ukraine. Georgia pulled out of the organization in 2009.
