Anatoly Vyborny: draft CSTO PA model recommendations on combating terrorism at fuel and energy facilities passed first reading

Anatoly Vyborny, Chairman of the Expert Advisory Board under the Council of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, Chairman of the CSTO PA Standing Commission on Defence and Security, deputy Chairman of the Committee on Security and Corruption Control of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation:
– We reviewed a number of issues, including comments and proposals on the draft model acts to be submitted to the Standing Commissions and the 15th CSTO PA Plenary Session for their full approval.
In particular, the draft recommendations on improving national legislation of the CSTO Member States to cut off channels of international terrorism were approved. Our main task is to develop legal frameworks the goals of which is to timely draft, adopt and implement model legislative acts that meet the current challenges and threats.
One successful example of such work, according to Anatoly Vyborny, is the formation of a Unified List of Terrorist Organizations.
This will make it possible to rule out situations in which a terrorist organization banned in one CSTO Member State will be legal in another.
Earlier comments and proposals on the draft model CSTO law on information and analytical support to law enforcement agencies of CSTO Member States in relation to Organization’s activities will also be taken into account. Specifically, Kazakhstan proposes that the draft should take account of the particular features of national legislation, according to which the special services of a state performing a law enforcement function must not be identified with the law enforcement agencies.
A decision has been made to submit for consideration by the CSTO PA Standing Commission on Defence and Security draft CSTO model recommendations on countering terrorism at fuel and energy facilities. In view of the significance of fuel and energy facilities as critical infrastructure of CSTO Member States, they are subject to special physical protection against possible terrorist acts and are a priority. After all, a terrorist attack on fuel and energy facilities could have consequences comparable to the use of weapons of mass destruction.