BISHKEK. Oct 11 (Interfax-AVN) - The leaders of the law-enforcement agencies and special services of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization's member-states are holding an emergency meeting in Bishkek on Thursday.
The meeting is being attended by the ministers and deputy ministers of the interior, and by the leaders of the security services of Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Russia and China, sources in the meeting secretariat have told Interfax.
Representatives of Uzbekistan are not participating, they said.
Opening the meeting, its chairman, head of Kyrgyzstan's national security service Bolot Dzhanuzakov, said that the goal of the meeting is to discuss the coordination of the work of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization's law-enforcement agencies in resisting international terrorism, religious extremism and separatism in the context of regional and international security.
The participants in the meeting are expected to work out coordinated measures to maintain security, Dzhanuzakov said. The latest developments have demonstrated, he said, that Central Asia is in the vanguard of the struggle against the plans of international terrorists and extremists.
The struggle against terrorism should be waged in line with the resolutions of the UN Security Council, he said, noting that even the most large-scale retaliatory action will not bring the expected result. "No country can cope with the problem of threats alone," he said, adding that "collective steps should be taken."