ITAR-TASS News Agency
TASS
June 7, 2005 Tuesday 10:10 AM Eastern Time
CSTO to form working expert groups on fighting terrorism
MOSCOW
The working expert groups on fighting terrorism and extremism and
opposing illegal immigration will be formed at the Security Council’s
Secretaries Committee (SCSC) of member-countries of the Collective
Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), Tass learned from the CSTO
secretariat’s press service.
“During the meeting of the Permanent Council under the CSTO on
Tuesday the plenipotentiary representatives of Armenia, Belarus,
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Tajikistan coordinated draft
provisions for the working expert groups on fighting terrorism and
extremism and opposing illegal immigration at the Security Council
Secretaries Committee (SCSC) of the countries participating in the
CSTO,” says the report.
Toktasyn Buzubayev, the deputy secretary-general of the CSTO, said,
“The groups will become working bodies of the SCSC to execute the
decisions taken.” “The groups come into being because of the need to
coordinate under the auspices of the security councils the efforts of
various ministries and agencies for fighting terrorism and
extremism,” he said.
The working groups will be drafting on instruction of the SCSC the
proposals for joint practical measures of CSTO countries to fight
terrorism and check illegal immigration, and will participate in
analysing, assessing and supplying information needed to fulfil the
tasks of the SCSC.
The drafts coordinated on Tuesday require the endorsement at the
level of the councils of foreign ministers, defence ministers and the
SCSC. After that they will be referred to the meeting of the supreme
body, the Collective Security Council, in which member- countries of
the CSTO participate.