MOSCOW. May 24 (Interfax) - Joint approaches are needed for building a common international security architecture against the backdrop of the standoff with the West, Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev said in his opening remarks at a plenary meeting of the 11th international meeting of high-ranking security officials.
"The need to elaborate a unifying agenda, aimed at all states' socioeconomic development without exception, and to build a common, indivisible international security architecture is higher than ever, as the West seeks to destroy fundamental norms and values," Patrushev said at the meeting, which is being held in the Moscow region by the Russian Security Council.
The upcoming plenary sessions and debates "will help elaborate approaches to ensuring security that will be relevant at both national and international levels," Patrushev said.
This year's meeting is attended by 112 foreign delegations led by security council secretaries, national security assistants and advisors to heads of state, and ministers and security service chiefs from 101 countries, as well as seven secretaries-general and members of international organizations' leadership bodies, he said.
"Separately, I would like to greet our traditional participants, as well as high-ranking representatives of Malawi, the secretariats of the CIS, the CSTO, the EAEU, and the SCO, and the administration of the Central American Integration System and the Central African Economic and Monetary Community, who are taking part in our conference for the first time," Patrushev said.