Tajik President Emomali Rahmon today received visiting Russia’s Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev, according to the Tajik president’s official website.
The two sides reportedly discussed issues related to security cooperation between Tajikistan and the Russian Federation.
Tajik leader expressed satisfaction with development of strategic partnership between Tajikistan and Russia.
He, in particular, noted that Tajikistan’s position on expansion of security cooperation with the Russian Federation remains invariably stable, the website says.
Rahmon and Patrushev also discussed collaboration between the two countries within the frameworks of the CIS, the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO).
They pointed to the necessity of developing joint measures for the fight against threats facing the world today, solution of regional security issues and strengthening of control along Tajikistan’s common border with Afghanistan.
Rahmon and Patrushev also discussed issues of expansion of military and technical cooperation between Tajikistan and Russia as well as improvement of combat capability of Tajikistan’s armed forces and border troops.
Their meeting was reportedly followed by a joint meeting of experts of the Security Councils of Tajikistan and Russia.
Russia’s ITAR TASS news agency reports Patrushev and his Tajik counterpart Abdurahim Qahhorov discussed ways to prevent recruitment of citizens of both countries into international terrorist organizations, according to the Russian Security Council’s website.
Nikolai Patrushev (born July 11, 1951) is a Russian politician and security and intelligence officer. He served as Director of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), which is the main successor organization to the Soviet KGB (excluding foreign intelligence), from 1999 to 2008, and he has been Secretary of the Security Council of Russia since 2008. The Security Council of Russia is a consultative body of the President that works out his decisions on national security affairs.
