MINSK, November 30 (AVN) - The CIS anti-terrorist centre will open on Friday, Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov told reporters.
Ivanov was speaking after a session of the CIS Foreign Ministers Council which took place in the Belarussian capital.
All the CIS member states supported establishment of a single anti-terrorist centre and approved its statute, establishment, governing bodies and budget, Ivanov stressed. Over RUR3m (USD107,480) will be transferred to the centre this year and about RUR12.7m (USD445,000) in 2001.
The council endorsed Lieutenant-General Boris Mylnikov head of the centre. He was appointed to the post at a CIS heads of state meeting in Moscow in June 2000. Prior to that, Mylnikov worked as first deputy head of the constitutional order protection department in the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB).