Russian-Chinese border guards to conduct joint operation
TASHKENT. March 28 (Interfax) - The border guard services of Russia and China will conduct a joint border operation in the Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), Russian Federal Security Service First Deputy Director Sergei Smirnov said.
"The decision to conduct this special operation is based on an agreement between the heads of the countries on interaction between the border guard services of the SCO countries," Smirnov told reporters on Friday.
A decision to conduct a joint border operation by the relevant authorities of the SCO countries was backed at the session of the Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure Council in Tashkent in 2014.
Smirnov said a group liaison between the border guard services of the SCO countries has been created in the Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure.
This year, training is conducted by Russia and China. Previously, such training was conducted by China in cooperation with Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan.
The countries of the SCO Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure have also created a group liaison on cyber threat prevention at an expert level, Smirnov said.
"We have developed methods that were approved at the meeting of the SCO Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure Council," Smirnov said.
The participants in the session of the SCO Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure Council in Tashkent (representatives of Kazakhstan, China, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan) also approved a draft provision on a unified register of Internet sites used for terrorist, separatist, and extremist purposes, as well as a provision on the mechanism governing interaction between the relevant authorities of the SCO countries in the detection and prevention of the use of the Internet for terrorist, separatist, and extremist purposes.
