Representatives of the CIS member states have agreed to cooperate in counteracting modern challenges and threats to security during the consultations on the level of foreign ministries which took place in the capital of Kyrgyzstan. This was reported by the press service of the Kyrgyz Foreign Ministry.
"In the city of Bishkek, in the framework of the presidency of the Kyrgyz Republic in the CIS, the annual inter-ministerial consultations of the CIS member states on counteracting new challenges and threats were held. The participants of the consultations confirmed their readiness for further development and strengthening of cooperation of the CIS member states in counteracting new challenges and threats to security at various international platforms, primarily within the UN system, as well as other regional organizations," the statement reads.
The ministry of foreign affairs of Kyrgyzstan noted that during the meeting the participants discussed "a wide range of issues of cooperation on counteracting these new challenges and threats to security," including terrorism and extremism, their financing and drug trafficking.
The Kyrgyz side informed the participants of consultations about the work of "the country's competent agencies in the field of combating terrorism and extremism, the fight against drug trafficking" as well as about "the planned initiatives at international platforms with the support of partner states."
Delegations from Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan as well as representatives of the CIS Executive Committee and the Commonwealth Anti-Terrorism Center participated in the consultations in Bishkek.
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Based on materials from TASS