CIS Interior Ministers to discuss counter-terrorism, anti-crime measures

Accoridng to BelTA, the Council will examine the draft concept of cooperation among CIS member states in combating crimes committed through the use of information technologies. The document contains important proposals that would strengthen the overall capacity of the CIS to combat the organized crime and terrorism.

In order to improve the legal basis for cooperation, the Interior Ministers will consider a draft Protocol on the mechanism for the transfer by the competent authorities of drugs, firearms and ammunition that are evidence in criminal cases. The meeting will also decide on the termination of a number of the previous decisions of the Council. Particular attention will be given to the activities of the Council in connection with the 20th anniversary of the Commonwealth of Independent States, which is celebrated this year.

The Council assisted the development of an integrated procedural system to boost cooperation against organized crime, terrorism and other manifestations of extremism, drugs and human traffic. The Council is actively involved in approximation of national laws. A number of model laws (On combating human trafficking, On anticorruption measures, On transportation security) worked out jointly with the CIS Inter-Parliamentary Assembly testify to the fact.

The CIS Council of the Interior Ministers was founded by the CIS Council of the Heads of State on 19 January 1996 to step up cooperation against crime. The Council comprises the interior ministers of Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Ukraine. Turkmenistan sometimes takes part in the Council's meetings.

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