CIS STATES AGREE ON INTELLIGENCE COOPERATION.

Intelligence service chiefs of all 12 member countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States signed a joint cooperation agreement on combatting organized crime, terrorism, arms and drug trafficking and other cross-border crimes, Izvestiya reported June 3. In addition to being one of the few CIS initiatives that all 12 states have signed, the new accord sets out rules for the activities of one intelligence service on the territory of another–including the principle that these activities require advance notification and approval by the states in which they occur.

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