Briefing at UN SC CTC

Russia’s FSB has been keeping on with its practice of hosting the international Meetings of Special Services, Security Agencies, and Law-Enforcement Organizations. The 6th Meeting held in September 2007 in the city of Khabarovsk was attended by the delegations of 76 agencies representing 53 national states along with 4 international organizations.

January 2008

Meetings of Special Services, Security Agencies,

and Law-Enforcement Organizations

Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation

The annual meetings of top security / intelligence officials provide appropriate conditions and opportunities for finding common approaches to counterterrorism, necessitating the refrain from the stereotypes of confrontational

thinking.

The 6th Meeting was focused on discussing the most persistent issues of security / intelligence and law-enforcement interaction in responding to the present terrorist threats

The 6th Meeting contributed to the implementation of the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism by way of placing on its agenda the problems of improving security / intelligence co-operation in countering nuclear terrorism threats. To the effect the report by the IAEA representative was helpful in bringing the issue into the focus of every participant’s attention.

Given the currently developed global informational environment the participants of the Meeting agreed upon the urgent need to enhance the scope of security / intelligence and law-enforcement interaction to detect and suppress the attempts to use the Internet facilities for the terrorist purposes, above all, as a means of radical ideology and propaganda, recruitment of new members, fundraising activities, and establishing clandestine operational links.

Great emphasis was

made on the

methods,

techniques, and best

practices of

countering the

activities of

international

terrorist

organizations. The

participants

exchanged their

views regarding the

measures of

neutralizing radical

ideology employed

by terrorist outfits

worldwide with a

view to gaining their

illegal objectives.

Ensuring the appropriate information sharing among the security / intelligence and law-enforcement authorities is seen as one of the principal guidelines of counterterrorist co-operation. The presentation of the International Counterterrorism Database developed by the Russia’s National Anti-Terrorism Committee was considered by the participants as a significant practical result of the Meeting’s work.

subsequent plans are to continue the development of its classified component. Putting the Database into routine operational use and its constant updating shall be instrumental in the practical implementation of Paragraph 2b, UNSCR 1373 providing for the creation of a universal anti-terrorist information environment.

After the unclassified segment of the Database becomes fully operational our

The working format of the Meeting creates the unequalled preconditions for the promotion of the security / intelligence and law-enforcement co-operation in addressing the new threats and challenges to the world of today, contributing to the consolidation of global efforts against terrorism and making national states more attached to their commitments, stipulated for in the relevant anti-terrorist resolutions of the UN Security Council.

For the first time in our Meeting’s history we conducted the international anti-terrorist exercise. During the exercise conducted bilaterally by the Russia’s FSB and China’s Ministry of Public Security the methods of tactical coordination between the two participating agencies had been practiced in line with a hostage rescue scenario. Following the detailed demonstration of each successive step of hostage release negotiations the active phase of the operation was carried out onboard a hijacked aircraft. Concerted efforts made by Russian and Chinese security agencies presented an example of a highly efficient suppression of a terrorist attack.

The 7th Meeting is planned to be

held on 27-28 March 2008 in the city

of Khanty-Mansiysk.

The following items are to be

considered within the next forum’s

agenda:

Ensuring transport security

Detection and disruption of

international channels of terrorist

financing

International information security

Security provision of major

international and socio/political events

against the threats posed by extremist

elements

Additionally to that the work on further

development and improvement of the

Meeting-elaborated International

Counterterrorism Database is to be

carried on.