CIS countries successfully cooperate in war on terror, says CIS executive secretary

MOSCOW, April 9. /TASS/. Cooperation of the CIS member countries in strengthening security and war on terror develops successfully and remains an absolute priority for the Commonwealth of Independent States, CIS Executive Secretary Sergei Lebedev told TASS on Monday. "I would like to emphasize that the strengthening of stability and security has been and remains an absolute priority for the Commonwealth member countries," said Lebedev, who turned 70 on Monday. "A program of cooperation of the CIS member countries in fight against terrorism and other manifestations of extremism for 2017-2019 was mapped out and is being implemented," said the executive secretary of an alliance of post-Soviet states. "The main efforts are concentrated on joint preventive activities and special operations, transfer of best practices, training of personnel," Lebedev added. Lebedev emphasized the importance of the competent agencies’ "actively engaging the possibilities of the civic society, business, mass media and traditional religious confessions". "The joint exercise Combat Commonwealth-2017, held by the Council of the CIS Defense Ministers, and the anti-terrorist exercise Dushanbe-Antiterror-2017, held by the CIS Antiterrorist Center, came as a major contribution to the strengthening of anti-terrorist security," the executive secretary said. Read more