TASHKENT. June 21 (Interfax) - The countries of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) blocked user access to 100,000 Internet sites promoting terrorism, separatism and extremism in 2016, SCO Regional Antiterrorist Structure executive committee head Yevgeny Sysoyev said.
"User access was blocked to some 100,000 websites, on which some one million documents of a terrorist and extremist nature were published, in 2016 alone," Sysoyev told reporters in Tashkent on Wednesday.
The cyber space provides unique opportunities for international terrorist organizations to achieve their tasks and goals, including involve new members, radicalize youth, run their groups and organize terrorist attacks, he said.
"The blocking of user access to websites is currently not the most effective measure, but at the same time, we have no intention of stopping that yet," he said.
The SCO Regional Antiterrorist Structure is based in Tashkent.