Russian interior ministry ready to share its experience with Afghan law enforcers - Russian interior minister

MOSCOW, May 19. /TASS/. Russia’s interior ministry is ready to share its experience in fighting against crimes in the sphere of information technologies with Afghan law enforcers, Russian Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev, who is currently on a working visit to Afghanistan, said after his meetings with President Ashraf Ghani and Interior Minister Noor ul-Haq Ulumi on Tuesday. According to the press service of the Russian interior ministry, Kolokoltsev and Ulumi discussed the use of the internet "as a tool to propagate radical ideology, to coordinate terrorist attacks and extremist provocations, and a channel to finance destructive organizations." Kolokoltesev said the Russian interior ministry had accumulated a vast experience in counteracting crimes in the sphere of information technologies and was ready to share it with its Afghan colleagues. "On our part, we are interested in receiving important information about actions and movements of criminals, especially terrorists and extremists, to be able to bring them to justice and to block channels of financing," the press service quoted the Russian minister as saying. "Such exchange might be carried out with the use of the possibilities of Interpol, of which Russia and Afghanistan are members." The Russian minister invited Afghan counterparts to take part in an international homeland security exhibition Inetrpolitex-2015 due to be held in Moscow in October. At a meeting with the Afghan president, the visiting Russian minister said the two countries’ law enforcement bodies had partners relations in the area of fighting against organized crime, international terrorism, extremism, drug trafficking and other trans-border challenges and threats. Read more