Delegates from 119 states discuss international security issues in Ufa

UFA, 18 June 2019. /Bashinform News Agency, Ksenia Kalinina/ translated by Tatiana Aksyutina/.

On June 18, the 10th International Meeting of High Representatives for Security Issues began in the Ufa Congress Hall “Toratau”. The opening ceremony was attended by Secretary of the Security Council of Russia Nikolay Patrushev, Presidential Envoy to the Volga Federal District Igor Komarov, the Acting Head of Bashkortostan Radiy Khabirov.

According to Nikolay Patrushev, the international meeting enjoys constant authority, and today it brings together 119 states from Europe, America, Africa, the Persian Gulf, the Middle East, Southeast, and Northeast Asia and other regions of the world.

The agenda of each meeting is based on the wishes of the participating countries in the modern realities, as well as on the results of previous conferences.

By tradition, the Secretary of the Russian Security Council read out to the delegates the greetings of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Igor Komarov believes that the modern world is going through a period of profound changes; it has become economically and politically multipolar, it has a range of new threats, called "hybrid". In this regard, according to him, a clear priority is to form coordinated measures aimed at developing possible ways to localize them and prevent their expansion and restriction of intensity.

According to Radiy Khabirov, the forum will give an additional impetus to strengthening international cooperation in countering new security challenges and threats at the global, national and regional levels.

Today, representatives of delegations will discuss the issue of ensuring national security and sustainable socio-economic development of states in the face of growing hybrid threats. The second day of the meeting will continue to examine the topics of international cooperation in the field of emergency humanitarian response and the prospects for its development at the present stage in the interests of maintaining strategic stability. On the third day of the conference, discussions will be held in the format of "round tables". One of them will be devoted to enhancing international cooperation in combating the terrorist ideology and countering the self-radicalization of single terrorists. The topic of the second round table: "The system of international information security as a guarantor of strategic stability and equal partnership in the global information space."

Separate informal meetings in the format of BRICS and "Russia - ASEAN" will be conducted as part of the event. Separate meetings will be held with representatives of the African continent. Dozens of bilateral talks between Nikolay Patrushev and foreign partners are envisaged. A number of meetings will be held with the guests of the forum at the level of deputy and assistant secretaries of the Russian Security Council, representatives of ministries and departments.

The Congress Hall “Toratau” features an exposition, where foreign delegations got acquainted with the systems of traffic control, face recognition, video surveillance and video analytics. The guests visited an exhibition booth dedicated to investment opportunities and industrial potential of Bashkortostan.