Chiefs of CIS security services to discuss threats posed by Isis

MOSCOW, May 26. /TASS/. Heads of secret services of CIS member-states get together in Tajikistan’s capital Dushanbe on Tuesday to consider counteraction to the threats posed by Isis. Isis and its actions are the central issue on the agenda of the 38th session of the Council of Chiefs of Security Agencies and Secret Services of the Commonwealth of Independent States, the public relations center of the Russian federal security service FSB said. "Particular attention will be given to raising the efficiency of the efforts to rebuff terrorism and extremism and to neutralize possible threat to the CIS member-state on the part of Isis," an official at the public relations center said. In the course of the meeting, the participants will sum up performance under a programme for fighting with terrorism and other violent manifestations of extremism in the years 2014 through to 2016 and will hear a report by the CIS Antiterrorist Center on the results of its activity last year. FSB Director Alexander Bortnikov said at a meeting of the Council in Astana, Kazakhstan, last November the growth of Isis’s terrorist activity was posing one of the biggest problems of the day and bearing immediate tangible threats to security and stability in the world. "An especially dangerous situation is taking shape in the Middle East where the formation of a terrorist international on the basis of Isis has begun," Bortnikov said. "Its members get a crash course in combat operations in Iraq and Syria and then return to their home countries as instructors, recruiters, preachers, and experts on setting up clandestine criminal groupings with uphold tight links to the ‘mother organization’." "Since people hailing from the CIS and the EU are fighting in the ranks of that global gangster milieu, our countries become handy targets for international terrorists," Bortnikov said. In addition, he warned that Isis was acquiring financial self-reliance, which meant had begun to function not only thanks to support from fundamentalist regimes, drugs trafficking, trading in people or other criminal activities but also through the revenues from illegal production and sales of crude oil. Read more