TASHKENT. March 29 (Interfax) - The member countries of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) will develop their own mechanism of maintaining information security that will differ from the Western model, Russian Federal Security Service Deputy Director Sergei Smirnov said.
"All SCO member states agree that we should not look back at the West, but we ought to work out our own mechanism to maintain information security. After we develop this model, we will possibly present it in the United Nations," Smirnov told journalists after the 22nd session of the Council of the SCO Regional Antiterrorist Center.
This mechanism will be intended to protect the SCO information space, but it should not hurt freedom of speech, he said.
"There is a very fine line between openness and the spread of terrorist threats. We are not going to obstruct the use of the Internet, which is an excellent source of information. But if the Internet is used by terrorists, who run websites that recruit people into radical terrorist centers, we will have to develop mechanisms to respond to these threats," he said.
The next session of the Council of the SCO Regional Antiterrorist Center will be held in Yaroslavl, Russia, on September 20, Smirnov said.