CSTO security council secretaries discuss Central Asian security
BISHKEK. May 27 (Interfax) - Secretaries of the Security Councils of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) member countries have discussed Central Asian stability after the coalition pullout from Afghanistan in 2014.
"There will be no peace or stability in Afghanistan after the troops' pullout," Kyrgyz Defense Council Chairman Busurmankul Tabaldiev said in Bishkek on Monday as he was summarizing the meeting results.
"Threats coming from Afghanistan in connection with the withdrawal of the forces are very serious - terrorism, extremism; the threats require measures on the part of CSTO member countries," he said.
The meeting participants "made a detailed analysis of the situation and considered scenarios that may occur after the forces' pullout from Afghanistan," he said.
Representatives of the border departments of Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, the Council of Border Force Commanders and Russia's Federal Drug Control Service and Federal Security Service attended the meeting for the first time, Tabaldiev said.
CSTO Deputy Secretary General Gennady Nevyglas told reporters after the meeting that the sides "made numerous proposals and suggested numerous projects for stepping up their work."
"The Russian Federal Security Service proposed to establish a center for fighting information crimes. This is just a project, which will continue to be discussed," Nevyglas said.
He added that the Federal Drug Control Service had proposed to create a CSTO "drug control center on the basis of Operation Canal."
"The proposal gained the support of all participants," he added.