CIS security chiefs to meet in Baku
Heads of security and secret service bodies of the Commonwealth of Independent States countries will meet in the Azerbaijani capital Baku on October 26-28, according to the CIS Executive Committee.
Discussions will focus on issues including combat against religious extremism, terrorism, illegal migration, and drug trafficking. The meeting of the CIS security and secret service chiefs will also mull the outcomes of anti-terror exercises and activities of the Anti-terror Center planned for 2012.
The meeting will be attended by the head of the CIS Executive Committee Sergey Lebedev.
A delegation from Armenia, a neighboring country with which Azerbaijan faces a long-standing conflict, is also expected to attend. The Armenian delegation will be headed by deputy chief of the National Security Service Romik Harutyunyan.
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