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    ITAR-TASS News Agency
    TASS
    September 30, 2005 Friday

    CIS Interior exercise to be held in Tajikistan in 2006-minister

    By Svetlana Alikina, Tigran Liloyan

    YEREVAN

    The Interior Ministries of the Commonwealth of Independent States
    (CIS) member countries are planning to conduct a joint antiterrorist
    exercise in Tajikistan in 2006, Russian Interior Minister Rashid
    Nurgaliyev told reporters on Friday after a meeting of the CIS
    Council of Interior Ministers held in the Armenian capital.

    "It is planned that special forces of several countries will take
    part in the exercise," Nurgaliyev said adding that the details will
    be coordinated later. The Russian Interior chief specified that the
    Russian Interior Ministry has already held a joint antiterrorist
    exercise with the Belarussian colleagues in Smolensk in September
    this year. "We will hold a similar exercise with the Armenian
    Interior Ministry in Krasnodar on October 10," the minister said.

    Nurgaliyev said the meeting participants discussed the progress of
    the implementation of the Joint Plan to counteract terrorism for
    2005. The minister pointed out the Russian Interior Ministry has
    conducted on information obtained from CIS countries a complex of
    search operations for persons placed on the international wanted list
    for crimes related to terrorism.

    "So we have six facts of fruitful joint work. In all the cases our
    work was most pre-emptive and prompt," the Russian interior minister
    said. He cited as an example the detention in Azerbaijan this March
    of members of the Islamic Jamaat operating in the territory of
    Tatarstan. Moreover, two persons wanted for terrorist attacks they
    staged in Tajikistan in the period from 1998 to 2001 were detained in
    Yakutia and St. Petersburg in June 2005.

    Nurgaliyev also said the Russian Interior Ministry is participating
    in drawing up of the list of organisations engaged in terrorist and
    extremist activities. According to him, the ministry "has put forward
    a proposal to recognise the international organisation Tabligi Jamaat
    a terrorist group and ban its activity in the territory of the
    Commonwealth member states."

    Nurgaliyev highly assessed the work of the CIS Council of Interior
    Ministers pointing out that it is "one of the most efficient
    executive bodies of the CIS." According to the Russian Interior
    chief, "It is gratifying that our cooperation is becoming more and
    more practical and together we are in actual practice fulfilling
    common tasks to ensure security, law and order."
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