The heads of border control bodies of the border agencies of the CIS member states at a meeting in Tashkent discussed the improvement of border control against the background of growing threats to border security, according to the website of the Executive Committee of the Commonwealth.
“A working meeting of the heads of border control bodies of the border agencies of the CIS member states took place in Tashkent. Its main topic was the discussion of ways to improve border control in the face of increasing threats to border security,” the message says.
The organizer of the planned event of the Council of Commanders of the Border Troops (UPC) was the border troops of the State Security Service of Uzbekistan. It was attended by representatives of the border agencies of Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, the Russian Federation, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, as well as the UPC Coordination Service.
“The participants of the working meeting exchanged views on topical issues of cooperation between border control authorities and discussed ways to improve joint activities, including the development of information exchange and countering the penetration into the territory of the CIS member states of persons involved in terrorist and extremist activities,” the message says.
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