MOSCOW, April 20 (AVN) - The seventh extraordinary session of the CIS security and special services chiefs council ended here on Thursday, the Military News Agency learned.
The session began on Tuesday, with Russian president-elect Vladimir Putin delivering an address to the participants. "Combating terrorism has long ago become an international affair, and not only in the post-Soviet territories," he said.
"International terrorism has a wide network of information, financial and ideological make-up in various regions of the world," Putin stressed. That is why "consolidation of our efforts is the only means of combating this international evil," he added.
In the course of the meeting, security chiefs exchanged opinions on working documents drafted under the auspices of the CIS Executive Committee, director of the Federal Security Service (FSB) Nikolai Patrushev told reporters after the plenary session.
Among these documents are the draft CIS Programme for Combating International Terrorism and Other Manifestations of Extremism for the period until 2003 and the Statute of the CIS Anti-terrorist Centre. Both documents will be submitted for signing to the next session of the CIS heads of the state council which will soon take place in Moscow.
The chiefs also picked up the candidate for top position in the Anti-Terrorist Centre. The appointment of Major-General Boris Mylnikov, from Russia, will be decided on by the heads of the state council.
The session was attended, among other officials, by Secretary of the Russian presidential Security Council Sergei Ivanov, CIS Executive Secretary Yuri Yarov, director of the Russian Federal Border Guard Service Konstantin Totsky and Russian Minister for the CIS Affairs Sergei Drachevsky.