"Plans are in place to streamline secret-service interaction during their coordinated search for arms-and-ammunition smugglers," RIA Novosti learned at the Federal Security Service's public-relations center.
Moreover, it is intended to discuss the anti-terrorist center's proposals on elaborating a common position as regards the standardization of CIS legislation in singling out terrorist and extremist organizations.
Council members are to discuss a draft protocol on setting up a joint fingerprint database of CIS secret services.
Minsk hosted the Council's seventeenth session in October 2004, with CIS secret-service chiefs deciding to set up a joint fingerprint database that would list suspected terrorists and those convicted for such crimes.
Nikolai Patrushev, director of Russia's FSB and Chairman of the Council of Heads of CIS Security Agencies and Special Services, said that "several joint databases are now being created for each CIS secret service.".
"Measures stipulating more active information exchanges about non-governmental organizations and foundations suspected of financing terrorist activity have been drafted," Patrushev noted.
The Council's seventeenth session also examined a draft CIS program for fighting international terrorism and other manifestations of extremism in 2005-2007. The concerned parties charted ways of streamlining interaction between secret services. This will enable them to thwart illegal migration on CIS territory.
