MINSK. June 6 (Interfax) - The head of the CIS Council of security and intelligence chiefs (SOBR), Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) Director Aleksandr Bortnikov has said that the SOBR doors are open to cooperation with Ukrainian security and intelligence agencies.
"Our counterparts in the Ukrainian Security Council did not attend today's SOBR meeting in Minsk, although we were waiting for this delegation. Our partners wanted to but were unable to travel for objective reasons," Bortnikov said in Minsk on Thursday.
"The doors of the CIS SOBR are open to our Ukrainian counterparts, we are always ready to cooperate with them," he said.
When asked about the role of intelligence agencies in foiling coup plots, the FSB said: "We take into account the fact that countries may have forces with certain intentions to topple the government."
"We are exchanging latest information. We have a piece of information about such destructive activity being funded by foreign structures, some of which are based in our (member) states as well," he added.
"Our efforts are largely aimed at preventing the legal opposition activities of certain forces from becoming destructive," Bortnikov said.
The FSB director said that the next meeting of the CIS Council of intelligence and security chiefs will be held in Kazakhstan in late 2014.