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Speaking at a meeting of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation’s Collective Security Council, President Vladimir Putin noted that the organisation should expand its cooperation with other international and regional organisations such as the United Nations, the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe and the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation. Cooperation could involve partnership in peacekeeping operations and joint work in the fight against terrorism and other threats.

The President noted that the Collective Security Treaty Organisation members have played a part in normalising the situation in Afghanistan and stressed that the organisation’s mechanisms make it possible to more effectively prevent drug trafficking and the threat of the spread of terrorism from within Afghanistan.