11 November 2002 00:00
CONCERNING RESULTS OF WORK OF INTER-PARLIAMENTARY ASSEMBLY OF THE EURASIAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY
The Inter-Parliamentary Assembly of the Eurasian Economic Community has ended its work in Dushanbe, with the parliamentarians of Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan adopting a joint statement calling upon the parliamentarians of the Commonwealth of Independent States to close ranks in order to put up a reliable barrier to all forms of terrorism.
The head of the international Antiterrorist Center of the CIS countries, Boris Mylnikov, who attended the assembly, said that international terrorism had become a common trouble for the countries of the Commonwealth, having come from the outside and acquiring an increasingly global and brutal character. And so the response to the impudent challenge of the new insidious enemy must also be collective.
As Boris Mylnikov said, everyone understands the necessity to work out basically new mechanisms of cooperation in the fight against terrorism within the Commonwealth of Independent States. The very character of today's threats makes heightened demands on us in terms of the combining of efforts, coordination and an ability to act in advance. Boris Mylnikov noted: "As of now, there is a natural and clearly formulated understanding of the need to toughen up joint operations in the struggle against terrorism. The Antiterrorist Center of the Commonwealth's countries needs in the first place to realize the decisions which were made at the Chisinau Summit.
"They concern above all the creation in Bishkek of a full-fledged Central Asian branch of the CIS Antiterrorist Center. With its help there will be tackled here the questions of establishing rapid deployment forces within the Collective Security Treaty Organization. Its terms of reference will also cover planning, preparation and conduct of antiterrorist operations in the region. The representatives of the special services of Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and Tajikistan in Bishkek must soon be joined by representatives of the defense and interior ministries and of the border services. This will unify information flows and enhance the coordination of the activities of the various agencies in the struggle against international terrorism."
In the opinion of the head of the international Antiterrorist Center of the CIS countries, joint work on the identification and prevention of the terrorist actions under preparation within the CIS is becoming ever more important today. And in this activity it is worthwhile to fall back upon the experience of preventive measures of Russia's special services in the struggle against banditry, as well as to study and use the experience of preventive actions against international terrorism that special services of the US, Germany and the UK have, according to Mylnikov.
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