Dushanbe yesterday hosted a regular meeting of the CIS Council of Interior Ministers (Council).
The meeting brought together interior ministers of Azerbaijan (Ramil Usubov), Belarus (Igor Shunevich), Kazakhstan (Kalmukhanbet Kasymov), Kyrgyzstan (Ulan Isroilov), Russia (Vladimir Kolokoltsev), Tajikistan (Ramazon Rahimzoda) and Uzbekistan (Abdusalom Azizov), according to the Tajik Interior Ministry press center.
They discussed a wide range of issues related to combating transnational organized crime, terrorism, extremism, and illicit drug trafficking.
The meeting participants also discussed implementation of interstate crime prevention programs, draft interstate crime prevention programs designed for 2019-2023 and implementation of decisions on providing public order and safety of citizens during mass events that were adopted at the previous session.
Besides, they discussed a draft protocol on making changes and addenda to the agreement on cooperation between the CIS member nations in combating drug trafficking (November 30, 2000) and implementation of the Council’s resolution on cooperation between interior ministries of the CIS member nations in preventing involvement of citizens in terrorist and extremist organizations (September 6, 2016).
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.
