NUR-SULTAN. Nov 20 (Interfax) - The secretaries of the CIS security councils have discussed a wide range of relevant issues of regional interaction amid the current challenges and threats to stability and security in the Commonwealth at a meeting in Moscow on Wednesday, according to the Kazakh presidential website.
"In particular, the parties addressed cooperation measures to neutralize threats posed by foreign terrorist operatives and prevent their movement through the territory of the Commonwealth. The exchange of views on the situation in Afghanistan, trends in cyber security, chemical and biological threats took place," the website said.
The Kazakh presidential aide, Security Council Secretary Kalmukhanbet Kasymov, presented a report on the evaluation of outside risks and threats in the CIS and noted the need for joint actions in the context of the development of the situation in Syria and Afghanistan and a growing influence of a number of religious extremist and terrorist organizations, it said.
Kasymov held bilateral meetings with Belarusian Security Council State Secretary Stanislav Zas, the Afghan president's National Security Advisor Hamdullah Mohib, Uzbek Presidential Security Council Secretary Viktor Makhmudov, and Armenian Security Council Secretary Armen Grigoryan on the sidelines of the event.
The parties exchanged views on main issues of regional and global security and discussed key cooperation tracks. A number of documents on interaction were signed, the website said.