ST. PETERSBURG (Sputnik) — Joint efforts of the entire global community are necessary to fight terrorism, while special services should enhance cooperation, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday.
"The central topic of the agenda is fight against international terrorism, which has grown to an unprecedented scale and, in fact, challenges the whole civilization. I'd like to stress that in order to effectively repel this threat, it is necessary to take decisive and coordinated steps by the global community, with special services and law enforcement playing the central role," Putin said in a welcoming speech addressed to a meeting of special services heads in Saint Petersburg, read out by Director of the Russian Federal Security Service Alexander Bortnikov.
The issue of insufficient control over the Internet should be tackled in order to effectively fight against international terrorist groups using it to their advantage, Russian Federal Security Service Director Alexander Bortnikov said Wednesday.
"It's necessary to solve the problem of lack of control and anonymity of the global cyberspace that terrorists actively exploit," Bortnikov said at a meeting of the heads of special and security services, and law enforcement.
He added that constant monitoring of the cyberspace was necessary to detect and block terrorist threats.
