Turkmenistan, Ashgabat, April 18 / Trend H.Hasanov /
The Council of CIS Border Troops Commanders will hold a meting in Turkmenistan by late April, the Turkmen media reported.
At the governmental meeting, President Gurbangulu Berdimuhammedov "gave specific instructions to the relevant agencies to hold ...a high-level meeting of the Council of CIS Border Troops Commanders in April".
Ashgabat hosted such an event in September 2010 during which leaders of the CIS frontier services discussed the border security of the Commonwealth. The agenda then included the issues of combating international terrorism, drug trafficking, illegal migration and others.
Moreover, the sides exchanged views on strengthening measures to maintain stability along the external borders of the CIS member-states under current conditions. The second goal is to conduct joint preventive operations, including those that would curb sea poaching.
Turkmenistan will receive a CIS chairmanship in 2012.