CIS summit to adopt cooperation program in fighting terrorism - Ushakov

MOSCOW, September 15 /TASS/. The CIS countries are planning to adopt a cooperation program, effective as of 2017 to 2019, for fighting terrorism and other violent manifestations of extremism at the forthcoming jubilee summit in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, on September 16-17, Russian president’s aide Yuri Ushakov told journalists. He added that counter-terrorism struggle would be one of the summit’s key topics. "Terrorism will be a theme for a special discussion. This is one of the key topics, which will be discussed closely and in detail at a session to be held behind the closed doors," Ushakov explained. During the summit, the sides are planning to discuss and adopt a number of documents in the sphere of security and law enforcement to raise the efficiency of joint efforts designed to counter new international challenges and threats. Apart from the counter-terrorism cooperation program, the CIS (the Commonwealth of Independent States) intends to adopt a program of fighting against crimes committed with the use of information technologies, which will be effective as of 2016 to 2020. Ushakov said the CIS countries were unlikely to discuss joint protection of the CIS borders which was a topic for discussion at the CIS summit in Astana, Kazakhstan, last year. Read more