ITAR-TASS News Agency, Russia
September 27, 2006 Wednesday
Unsettled social, political conflicts pose terror threat -official
by Vladimir Zainetdinov, Tigran Liloyan
The threat of new large-scale terrorist attacks will exist till
social and political conflicts remain unsettled, the head of the CIS
anti-terror center, Boris Melnikov, said in his opening remarks at a
meeting of the anti-terror departments of the CIS specials services.
The meeting is held within the framework of the Atom-Anti-terror-2006
exercise.
Servicemen will drill their attacks on terrorists at nuclear power
plants.
“Such exercises at nuclear power facilities will be held in the CIS
for the first time,” Melnikov said.
The military units of the Armenian Armed Force from the CSTO’s
collective rapid deployment forces will master their skills in such
an exercise for the first time.
Special services of Azerbaijan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan will not
take part.
Armenia invited observers from special services of the G8, the
anti-terror department of the OSCE secretariat, UN Security Council
counter-terrorism committee, the UN office on Drugs and Crime and
regional anti-terror structure of the Shanghai Cooperation
Organization.
The United States, Greece, France, China and the Organization for
Security and Cooperation in Europe have confirmed their
participation.
The anti-terror exercise in the CIS has been held for the sixth time.
Last time Kazakhstan’s Aktau on the Caspian Sea hosted the exercise.