FSB official, Afghan administration discuss terrorism issues

MOSCOW. Oct 8 (Interfax-AVN) - Viktor Komogorov, deputy head of the Federal Security Service (FSB), has visited Afghanistan to discuss terrorism prevention with the Afghan government.

"The meetings addressed cooperation on terrorism prevention, locating and cutting channels used for trafficking drugs from Afghanistan into Russia, illegal migration prevention, and cooperation on the protection of the Afghan-Tajik border," an official of the FSB public relations center told Interfax on Wednesday.

The meeting participants "agreed on the need to work together on specific cases and facts relating to the activity of groups of international terrorists in Afghanistan, which pose a threat to Afghanistan and Russia," he said.