Commonwealth of Independent States Discuss Security Issues in Samarkand
Officials of the Commonwealth of Independent States met in Samarkand and discussed security issues of the Commonwealth of Nations. Foreign ministers of Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan attended the meeting.
On Friday, members of the Commonwealth of Independent States stressed that terrorist infiltration inside the borders of the Commonwealth of Nations is more in sight than ever.
Uzbekistan's Foreign Minister Bakhtiyor Saidov said that the Commonwealth of Nations has “important tasks ahead and we can achieve our goals by coordinating our actions”.
Earlier in their last meeting, members of the Commonwealth of Independent States had warned that Islamic State-Khorasan (IS-K) forces had increased in Afghanistan.
On Thursday, the officials of neighbouring countries of Afghanistan including China, Iran, Pakistan, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan, too, expressed concerns about the presence of terrorist groups in Afghanistan.
The joint statement of these countries emphasised that all terrorist groups, namely the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), Al-Qaeda, the Eastern Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM), the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA), Jundallah, Jaish al-Adl, Jamaat Ansarullah, the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU), and other terrorist organisations based in Afghanistan continue to pose a serious threat to regional and global security.
