New threats, challenges prompt Russia to hold structural reforms at law enforcement agencies - Russian Security Council secretary
YEREVAN. June 8 (Interfax) - Russia is reforming its law enforcement agencies and is training troops in accordance with new threats and challenges, Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev said.
"The global situation is changing year after year and new threats and challenges are emerging. We are holding structural transformations in law enforcement agencies and are improving quality of troops' training," Patrushev said at a meeting of security council secretaries from CSTO member countries in Yerevan on Wednesday.
Russia adjusted its national security strategy in 2009 and 2015 for security's sake, Patrushev said.
Patrushev suggested that measures against those challenges and threats be elaborated in the CSTO.
A number of provisions of the CSTO collective security strategy have yet to be coordinated, he said. "We believe we should check whether all security issues have been covered by this document, including coordination of efforts taken by police forces of the CSTO member countries in fighting transnational organized crime," Patrushev said.
The CSTO should reach consensus on interaction supporting the activity of crucial energy, transport and information infrastructures, the Russian Security Council secretary said.
"This matter should not be crossed out from the draft strategy. I suggest that we step up our work on this document and submit it to our chiefs of state for signing at the autumn meeting of the [CSTO] Collective Security Council," he said.
The CSTO is a regional international organization comprising Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Tajikistan.
