Uzbek president suggests giving SCO anti-terrorist structure right to monitor information space
ASTANA. June 9 (Interfax) - The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) regional anti-terrorist structure should get the powers to organize monitoring of threats arising in the information space, Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev said.
"Today, international terrorist groups and destructive forces are increasingly actively using information technologies in their work, they aggressively use them to brainwash our young people, spread the ideology of violence," Mirziyoyev said at the meeting of the SCO Heads of State Council in Astana on Friday.
"We suggest making changes to the founding documents and give the SCO regional anti-terrorist structure the powers to organize a system to monitor the threats that arise in the global information space," Mirziyoyev said.
He said he believes it is important to strengthen specific joint measures to prevent the involvement of young people in the work of various terrorist and radial structures.
"We believe that special attention should be given to education, spiritual and moral education of young people, cultivating in them knowledge and ambitions for self-improvement. We also believe it is important to promote broad explanation of the true values of Islam, which have called and call for good things, peace and tolerance," Mirziyoyev said.
