DUSHANBE, October 28, 2009, Asia-Plus — Participants at an international conference formally titled “Germany and Central Asia – Strategy for Strong Partnership in Providing Security” that is expected to take place in the Tajik capital on November 2-3 have begun arriving in Dushanbe, according to the Drug Control Agency press service.
A delegation of the Federal Criminal Police Office of Germany arrived in the Tajik capital today.
Organized by the State Committee for National Security (GKNB), the Ministry of Interior and the Drug Control Agency of Tajikistan and the Federal Criminal Police Office of Germany, the conference aims to issues related to interaction between special services in combating organized crime, international terrorism, extremism and drug trafficking as well as training of personnel for police bodies.
Ministers of interiors, chiefs of security services and counternarcotics agencies from Central Asia’s states, Afghanistan and Pakistan have been invited to participate at the conference.
Representatives from police of China, France, Italy, Canada, Russia, Ukraine, the United States and the United Kingdom as well as specialists from international organizations such as Interpol, Europol, UNDP, UNODC, the European Commission Delegations and the Central Asian Regional Information and Coordination Center (CARICC) will attend the conference as observers.
