DUSHANBE, November 9, 2010, Asia-Plus  -- Tajik President Emomali Rahmon has called on the CIS security bodies to closely cooperate in combating international terrorism.

Tajik leader remarked this in Dushanbe today, while addressing to the 29th meeting of the Council of Heads of Security Agencies and Special Services of CIS Nations.

President Rahmon, in particular noted that terrorists have no homeland, nationality and religion, according to presidential press service.  He also condemned the double-standard policy over terrorist organizations, noting that the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1377 “condemns both terrorists and countries supporting them.”

The Tajik head of state also stressed that in the age of globalization no one country was able to provide its security alone and called on the CIS security bodies to closely cooperate in combating international terrorism.

He noted that combating drug trafficking should be one of priorities of the fight against international terrorism, reminding that more than 68,300 kilograms of Afghan narcotics, with 28,500 kilograms of them being heroin,  have been seized in Tajikistan over the past decade, presidential press service said.