ITAR-TASS News Agency
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March 17, 2004

Duma ratifies protocol on anti-terrorist operations in CIS

By Lyudmila Alexandrova

MOSCOW

The State Duma, lower house of Russia’s parliament, has ratified a
protocol on the procedure of organising and conducting anti-terrorist
operations on the territory of CIS countries.

The protocol was signed by Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Georgia,
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan and Ukraine in
Chisinau on October 7, 2002 at a session of the Council of CIS Heads
of State. It determines the tasks and the procedure of organising and
conducting joint anti-terrorist operations on the territory of CIS
countries.