MOSCOW. Sept 4 (Interfax-AVN) - The tasks of guaranteeing security can be tackled only through joint efforts at an international level, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said at a meeting with participants in a conference of the heads of CIS security and intelligence services.
"All security and intelligence services are operating in national interests and it should be so. At the same time given the experience of history, given the integration processes throughout the CIS and considering that we are living in a global world any task that we tackle cannot be tackled by national means alone," Medvedev said.
"I mean tasks related to security," he added.
"Whatever you take - terrorism, organized crime or extremism - these processes are not purely national," he said.
"Fifty years ago an individual country could successfully resist them, and still there were contacts. Today we are in an absolutely global space which one again confirms the usefulness of such activities and contacts," Medvedev said.
"Therefore I fully support the organization of such forums in Moscow," he said.
The two-day conference of CIS security and intelligence chiefs in Moscow was the tenth.