CIS Anti-Terrorism Center taking measures to fight IS

    CIS Anti-Terrorism Center is developing measures to prevent the Islamic State (IS) extremist organization from operating in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), Chief of the center, Andrey Novikov said Wednesday.
    "The Anti-Terrorism Center is actively working together with its partners to develop measures to prevent the Islamic State from operating in the CIS," Novikov informed a meeting devoted to the 15^th anniversary of the establishment of the CIS Anti-Terrorism Center.
    The consultations of the leaders of the national anti-terrorism centers of the CIS countries, which will take place on June 18 in Moscow, will focus on these issues.
    "We are alarmed by the expanding activity of international terrorist and radical extremist organizations, especially in Central Asia, by such phenomenon as terrorist mercenaries, and by the fact the Islamic State international terrorist organization is moving closer to the southern borders of the Commonwealth [CIS]," Novikov stressed.
    He added that certain problems exist that require building up efforts at the sub-regional level.
    Among these are the prevention of terror attacks on critically-important facilities, at mass gatherings, countering the distribution of damaging extremist ideas in cyberspace, countering so-called color revolutions and sabotage on part of unscrupulous NGOs (non-governmental organizations)," Novikov stressed, Kazinform reports.