DUSHANBE , April 17, Asia-Plus - Eight key issues have been tabled to the agenda of a meeting of the council of the CIS interior ministers that will open in Dushanbe on April 21.   

Tajik Interior Minister Khumdin Sharipov today told journalists that the meeting in Dushanbe will focus on prospects of further expansion of cooperation between the law enforcement agencies of the CIS states.   

“During two days participants at the meeting will exchange views on collective measures to combat transnational crime, international terrorism and extremism, as well as trafficking in drugs and weapons,” the minister said, stressing that the meeting is also supposed to consider and endorse a new instruction for searching criminals within the CIS area.  

According to him, more than 2,000 internationally wanted Tajik citizens are currently staying in the CIS states.