Tuesday, October 30 2018 18:04

ArmInfo.The Parliamentary Assembly of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (PA CSTO) at a meeting on October 30 adopted recommendations on the harmonization  of the national legislation of the CSTO member states regarding the  recognition of organizations as terrorist, reports TASS.

As Anatoly  Vyborny, deputy head of the State Duma's security and anti-corruption  committee, explained the chairman of the standing commission on  defense and security issues of the CSTO, "one of the measures to  counter terrorism is to ban organizations recognized as terrorist, to  maintain appropriate lists, based on information from national  authorities public authorities, financial institutions and other  organizations are taking appropriate measures in the area of their  responsibility. "

The deputy recalled that in order to unify national approaches to  banning terrorist groups in 2016, the decision of the CSTO Collective  Security Council was adopted to form a single list of organizations  recognized as terrorist within this regional association. This list  is based on national lists compiled in accordance with the internal  legislation of the CSTO states, the politician specified. In this  regard, "there was a need for harmonization of national rules for the  formation of lists of banned terrorist organizations," he stressed.  The CSTO PA also adopted a draft model law on information  confrontation against terrorism and extremism. As Anatoly Vyborny  explained, "for the information and propaganda expansion of terrorist  ideas, extremist organizations, modern information communication  technologies are increasingly used". The proposed novels are aimed at  creating legal and organizational mechanisms for informational  confrontation, "moving from defensive positions, responding only to  the facts of such manifestations to offensive prevention, prevention,  prevention, suppression," he stressed. In this regard, it is proposed  to introduce into the legal circulation a number of terms, concepts  and definitions, for example, "information superiority", the  parliamentarian continued. In addition, this activity (informational  confrontation) is proposed to "give a clear focus by concretizing its  principles, goals and objectives," he said. In particular, we are  talking about "preventive impact on the population in order to  prevent its representatives from engaging in terrorist and extremist  organizations, analyzing such tasks," said Elective. "Taking into  account the further informatization of society, the globalization of  information processes, a wide involvement of the media, public  organizations and other organizations is proposed," the head of the  commission of the PA CSTO concluded.

CSTO parliamentarians also adopted a model law "On safety of critical  facilities "aimed at developing a new coherent policy and harmonizing  legislative decisions of the organization's member countries in this  area. As noted in the explanatory note, the need to develop a  document is due to the growing number of critical facilities in the  system of countries' socio-economic infrastructure CSTO members,  increasing the level of danger of consequences in the event of a  disruption in the normal operation of the QUO, expanding the range of  security threats s, as well as the absence in most of the  organization's member countries of a normative framework for ensuring  the normal functioning of the QUO, "as well as preventing, detecting  and eliminating or localizing threats to their safety." Adoption of  the bill will reportedly "create effective institutional and legal  mechanisms ensuring the formation and development of the security  system of the QUO ", as well as improving the quality of the  normative acts adopted in this area and harmonizing approaches to  preparation with specialists. The CSTO PA also approved the concept  of a document on security during international events, the chairman  of the House of Representatives of the National Assembly (the lower  house of parliament) of Belarus Vladimir Andreichenko said after the  meeting. "The concept of a regulatory document has been adopted,  which is aimed at ensuring security during important international  events, sporting events," he said. 

Heads of parliaments of the participating countries of the  organization take part in the CSTO PA meeting:  Speaker of the  National Assembly of Armenia Ara Babloyan, head of the House of  Representatives of the National Assembly (lower house of parliament)  of Belarus Vladimir Andreichenko, chairman of the Majilis (lower  house of parliament) of Kazakhstan Nurlan Nigmatulin, chairman of the  Zhogorku Kenesh (unicameral Parliament) Kyrgyzstan  DastanbekJumabekov, as well as the delegations of the parliaments of  Tajikistan and Serbia, which is an observer at the PA CSTO.