Tajik President Emomali Rahmon today received interior ministers from the CIS member nations who arrived in Dushanbe to participate in a session of the CIS Council of Interior Minister.
According to the Tajik president’s official website, the meeting focused on issues related to providing regional and international security, expanding cooperation between the law enforcement authorities of the CIS member nations in combating organized transnational and drug trafficking as well as preventing youth radicalization in the CIS member nations.
The meeting participants pointed to the necessity of expanding security cooperation under conditions of globalization and quickly changing international situation.
Legislations of the CIS member nations reportedly foster regular exchange of operational information, training of personnel and carrying out of joint operations.
Recall, 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.
