ALMATY. Nov 11 (Interfax-Kazakhstan) - Central Asia's special services are stepping-up joint efforts aimed at rooting out terrorism in the region, said Major General Vladimir Bozhko, first deputy chief of the Kazakh National Security Committee.
"Such cooperation is on the rise. This intensification is guided by political factors and is based on a sound legal framework," Bozhko told a news conference in Almaty on Tuesday.
He praised the special services' effort to detain a representative of a terrorist organization seeking to spread its operations to Central Asia and Turkey. He said that Kazakh, Kyrgyz and Tajik special services contributed to the investigation.
Bozhko said that Russia's special services helped detain members of the Ivanov brothers' terrorist organization and representatives of another criminal organization active in the North Caucasus.
"There are numerous examples of such fruitful cooperation," he said.