DUSHANBE, May 14, 2013, Asia-Plus — Lieutenant-General Saymumin Yatimov, the head of the State Committee for National Security (SCNS) of Tajikistan will attend a meeting of the Council of Heads of National Security Enforcement Agencies and Special Services of CIS Member Nations that will take place in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan on May 15.
Some 20 issue have reportedly been tabled to the meeting’s agenda, including the issues related to combating terrorism and extremism, transnational organized crime and trafficking in drugs and human beings as well as providing information security within the CIS area.
The meeting participants will also discuss security issues of the upcoming Universiade in Kazan and Olympics in Sochi in 2014.
The issues of organizing further cooperation of the CIS special services to ensure security at the 22nd Winter Olympics, 11th Winter Paralympics in Sochi and 27th World Summer Universiade in Kazan in 2013 will be considered during the event, Russian media sources report.
According to Interfax, the meeting participants are to agree on the cooperation procedure during the sports events, to develop a plan “to block migration channels of militants as well as to draft ways to perfect joint work on searching people, who committed terrorist or extremist crimes.”
The meeting participants will also summarize results of other projects. Representatives of German, Italian, Spanish and French special services have been invited to attend the meeting.
The Council of Heads of National Security Enforcement Agencies and Special Services of CIS Member Nations was created in 1997 based on a decision by the Council of CIS Heads of State, for promoting cooperation and coordinating actions between the states’ security agencies and special services in fighting international organized crime and in other areas of activity.
