In Dushanbe, Russia and Tajikistan held consultations on ensuring biosafety, during which the parties discussed the implementation of the relevant intergovernmental memorandum and confirmed a common approach to the problem. The press service of the Russian embassy in Tajikistan reported this on Wednesday.
"The parties discussed the implementation of a bilateral intergovernmental memorandum of understanding on ensuring biological security, including specific areas of further cooperation," the report said.
It is noted that the parties considered issues of optimization and improvement of efficiency of implementing the objectives of this document, and exchanged assessments of threats to biological security on the territory of the CIS. Special attention was paid to the situation in Ukraine and the need for further cooperation both in the bilateral format and at multilateral platforms, primarily within the framework of the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention, as well as the CSTO, CIS and SCO was noted.
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Based on materials from TASS