MOSCOW. April 9 (Interfax) - The terrorist threat posed by the Islamic State will be among the issues addressed at the 4th conference on international security, which will be held in Moscow on April 16-17, Sergei Koshelev, the head of the main department of international military cooperation, said on Thursday.
"The first discussion panel will be headed by Deputy Defense Minister Anatoly Antonov. It will address terrorist threats. Specifically, we are going to speak about the Islamic State," Koshelev told reporters.
He said representatives of defense agencies will try to analyze the causes of international terrorism, its consequences and discuss how it can be fought together.
"You remember the events that took place in France. The people who were trained in terrorist camps are returning home, including to European countries, Canada, Russia, and Asian countries, and that causes security threats at home," Koshelev said.
Koshelev said the second discussion panel will be chaired by Academician Alexei Arbatov and it will be devoted to issues relating to international law mechanisms that exist in the sphere of security and their role in maintaining stability.
"We mean those mechanisms of trust, transparency and maintaining security in the sphere of conventional weapons that exist in Europe. It's the Vienna document of 2011, the Open Skies Treaty, and it would probably be wrong not to mention the Treaty on Conventional Forces in Europe, although, as you know, Russia suspended its participation in the joint consultative group on March 11," Koshelev said.
The international security conference, which is organized by the Russian Defense Ministry, will be held in Moscow for the fourth time. Among the people invited to the forum are officials from the defense ministries of eighty countries, including 15 defense ministers, leading experts of international organizations and representatives of NGOs and academic organizations.
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and Valery Gerasimov, the head of the Russian General Staff, will speak at the plenary session on April 16-17. They will state their views on key global security threats and the possible areas of international cooperation to fight these threats.